laudation
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- interlaudation noun
- overlaudation noun
- self-laudation noun
Etymology
Origin of laudation
1425–75; late Middle English laudacion < Latin laudātiōn- (stem of laudātiō ) a praising, equivalent to laudāt ( us ) (past participle of laudāre to laud ) + -iōn- -ion
Example Sentences
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Stenographers raced to catch every word of the torrent of laudation.
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The medical and scientific press of every country is full of paeans of laudation.
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Reich orchestral premiere: Tehillim, an infectious, high-spirited laudation set to Hebrew psalms, which begins with the sound of two hands clapping and ends in a full-throated blaze of hallelujahs.
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There in swift Italian he broadcast a laudation of Guglielmo Marconi, who was being made a member of that Academy.
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He explained that though his taste was sufficiently gross to crave laudation, he would be expected to enter into a defence of his Irish character-sketching, and this he would not do.
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Downey, Edmund
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