Sense file
How the sense moved
The archive follows the dated record first, then reads the social or rhetorical pressure that hardened, softened, narrowed, or reversed the word.
Older meaning
Things to be propagated or spread, especially in organized religious or institutional contexts.
Modern meaning
Information spread to influence opinion, often with a manipulative edge.
Research lens
This entry belongs in the framing archive because the label often decides the audience's posture before the message is examined.
Meaning trail
Root
things to be spread
A propagation term before the modern pejorative charge.
Institutional sense
organized doctrine spread
Systems and institutions used it openly.
Now
manipulative influence
Modern politics darkened the reception.