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1. Material that is disseminated by the promotors or opponents of a doctrine or a cause: The politician was accused of making speeches against his opponents which were full of propaganda.
2. The spreading of information or rumors for or against a set of ideas: During the First World War, there was a great deal of propaganda that was disseminated by both sides of the conflict and it has been analyzed as primarily consisting of emotionalisms, exaggerations, and falsehoods.

Propaganda was also used in the Second World War as a weapon of "psychological warfare."

3. Ideas, information, or images which usually only give one aspect of an argument; all of which are broadcast, published, or in some other way spread with the intention of influencing people's opinions: Television has been accused of being another device for spreading propaganda in order to persuade people to believe that certain ideas or actions are proper and others are untrustworthy.

1. When capitalized, the systematic effort to spread the Roman Catholic faith: The Catholic Propaganda is the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide or the "Sacred Congregation for Propagating the Faith" which was founded by Pope Gregory XV in 1622 and charged with overseeing the church's foreign missions.
2. Etymology: from Italian and from Latin propagandus which is from propagare, "to make known, to promote, or to spread".