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publickation

publickation is the obsolete spelling of publication.

Meaning of publication

Noun

publication (countable and uncountable, plural publications)

  1. The act of publishing printed or other matter.
    • The publication of these papers was not owing to our folly, but that of others.1727, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, “Preface”, in Miscellanies in Prose
  2. An issue of printed or other matter, offered for sale or distribution.
  3. The communication of information to the general public etc.
    • His jealousy ... attends the business, the recreations, the publications, and retirements of every man.1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC

Forms of publickation

pluralpublickations

Questions about publickation

What is publickation the obsolete spelling of?
Publickation is the obsolete spelling of publication.

Words near publickation in the dictionary

  1. publicizers
  2. publicizes
  3. publicizing
  4. publick
  5. publickally
  6. publickation
  7. publickations
  8. publicke
  9. publickly
  10. publicks
  11. publicly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: publickation (page history and authors); publication (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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