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Laud v. i. (past & past part. lauded; pres. part. lauding) To praise in words alone, or with words and singing; to celebrate; to extol. "With all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious name."

noun

Laud n.

High commendation; praise; honor; exaltation; glory. "Laud be to God." "So do well and thou shalt have laud of the same."

A part of divine worship, consisting chiefly of praise; usually in the pl. Note: In the Roman Catholic Church, the prayers used at daybreak, between those of matins and prime, are called lauds.

Music or singing in honor of any one.

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Etymology of 'Laud'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Laud" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mullaghmast and Tara of the kings. Miles of ears of porches. The tribune's words, howled and scattered to the four winds. A people sheltered within his voice. Dead noise. Akasic records of all that ever anywhere wherever was. Love and laud him: ...

— Ulysses • James Joyce

... Churne of Staffordshire Give laud and praises due, Who every meal can mend your cheer With tales both old and true: To William all give audience, And pray ye for his noddle: For all the fairies evidence Were lost, if it ...

— The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' • Compiled by Frank Sidgwick

... the fashion of more intellectual states to extol the institutions of which they saw only from afar and through a glass the apparent benefits, without examining the concomitant defects. An Athenian might laud the Spartan austerity, as Tacitus might laud the German barbarism; it was the panegyric of rhetoric and satire, of wounded patriotism or disappointed ambition. Although the ephors made the government really and latently democratic, yet the concentration of its action made it seemingly oligarchic; ...

— Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... as a man who has lived in a commercial and political atmosphere, and who feels outraged, and with some justice, by the policy which European nations have adopted towards China. From this view-point, it was easy for the quick- witted author to satirize our defects and to laud the virtues, some of them unquestionably real, of his native land. But it does not follow that his indictment holds against the Christian people of the West, who reprobate as strongly as the author the duplicity and brutality of foreign nations in their dealings with China. ...

— An Inevitable Awakening • ARTHUR JUDSON BROWN

... observe, if your wounded feelings allow you, that in nothing has Marco Antonio the advantage of me, except the happiness of being loved by you. My lineage is as good as his, and in fortune he is not much superior to me. As for the gifts of nature, it becomes me not to laud myself, especially if in your eyes those which have fallen to my share are of no esteem. All this I say, adored senora, that you may seize the remedy for your disasters which fortune offers to your hand. You see that Marco Antonio cannot be yours, since Heaven has ...

— The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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