laudation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin laudatio; compare Old English taudation. See laud.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɔːˈdeɪ.ʃən/

Noun

laudation (countable and uncountable, plural laudations)

1. The act of lauding; high praise or commendation.
   • 1857, London Quarterly Review (volume 7, page 498)

     […] his wondrous laudations and defendings of the unfriended Turner […]

   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 37:

     Thus, the myths of cinema and syndicated cartoon have served to unite the diverse races far more than the clump of the cricket-ball and the clipped rebukes and laudations of their masters.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:praise

Derived terms

• overlaudation

Translations

act of lauding

Armenian: գովեստ (hy) (govest) Bulgarian: хвалебствие (bg) n (hvalebstvie), възхвала (bg) (vǎzhvala) Greek: Ancient: δοξολογία f (doxología) Italian: lode (it) f Macedonian: вели́чање n (velíčanje), славо́појка f (slavópojka) Portuguese: loa (pt) f Spanish: loa (es) f

See also

• applaud
• applause
• plaudit

Anagrams

• adulation