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noun

Acclamation n.

A shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause. "On such a day, a holiday having been voted by acclamation, an ordinary walk would not satisfy the children."

(Antiq.) A representation, in sculpture or on medals, of people expressing joy.

In parliamentary usage, the act or method of voting orally and by groups rather than by ballot, esp. in elections; specif. (R. C. Ch.), The election of a pope or other ecclesiastic by unanimous consent of the electors, without a ballot.

Acclamation medals are those on which laudatory acclamations are recorded.

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Etymology of 'Acclamation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Acclamation" Quotes from Famous Books

... were reading and snickering over his shoulder ere he had driven the last tack. Soon the bulletin-board was crowded by hundreds who could not get near enough to read. Then a reader was appointed by acclamation, and thereafter, throughout the day, many men were acclaimed to read in loud voice the notice Smoke Bellew had nailed up. And there were numbers of men who stood in the snow and heard it read several times in order to memorize the succulent ...

— Smoke Bellew • Jack London

... root out the whole hated family of the Tarquins; and bearing the dead body to Rome, Brutus acquainted the people with the doer and manner of the vile deed, with a bitter invective against the tyranny of the king: wherewith the people were so moved, that with one consent and a general acclamation the Tarquins were all exiled, and the state government changed from kings ...

— The Rape of Lucrece • William Shakespeare [Clark edition]

... assembly, composed chiefly of the proletarians who had come from the country—the Comitia Tributa—voted according to his proposal, and Octavius was removed by the lictors from the tribune bench, and then the agrarian law was passed by acclamation. The Commissioners chosen to confiscate and redistribute the lands were Tiberius Gracchus, his brother Gaius, and his father-in-law Appius Claudius, which family selection vastly increased the indignation of the Senate, who threw every obstacle ...

— Ancient States and Empires • John Lord

... labor in the execution of a task which may tend, however feebly, to the advancement of the cause of real art in England, and to the honor of those great living Masters whom we now neglect or malign, to pour our flattery into the ear of Death, and exalt, with vain acclamation, the names of those who neither demand our praise, ...

— Modern Painters Volume I (of V) • John Ruskin

... intense. We have been informed by persons who remember those days that no romance of Sir Walter Scott was more impatiently awaited, or more eagerly snatched from the counters of the booksellers. High as public expectation was, it was amply satisfied; and Cecilia was placed, by general acclamation, among the ...

— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay

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