the act or an instance of making information public
4.
the act of disseminating defamatory matter, esp by communicating it to a third person
libel, slander
Archaic word: publishment
Word origin
C14: via Old French from Latin pūblicātiō confiscation of an individual's property, from pūblicāre to seize and assign to public use
publishment in American English
(ˈpʌblɪʃmənt)
noun
archaic
publication
Word origin
[1485–95; publish + -ment]This word is first recorded in the period 1485–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: elemental, invade, slant, sweepstakes, verbal-ment is a suffix of nouns, often concrete, denoting an action or resulting state (abridgment; refreshment), a product (fragment), or means (ornament)