promulgator

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These misdeeds were different from the ones Hersey was focussed on in “The Legend on the License,” but they take away some of the burnish from his image as the promulgator of sacred rules.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

Even more disturbing was the untimely demise of John H Knowles, director of the Rockefeller Foundation and promulgator of the “doctrine of personal responsibility” for one’s health.

From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2018

That the age of universal popularity of the nylon-haired, doe-eyed, plastic embodiment of body fascism, that icon of mindless consumption and ravening materialism, promulgator of female passivity and aggravator of vanity is over at last?

From The Guardian • Jul. 21, 2013

The hero of Ju�rez, who does not appear in it, is James Monroe, fifth President of the U. S. and promulgator of the doctrine that the U. S. wants no foreigners in its back yard.

From Time Magazine Archive

This somewhat extraordinary demand did not receive the respect or obedience on which its promulgator had doubtless relied.

From The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by Semmes, Raphael