Some—including some in the government—lauded these efforts as heralding a new and positive kind of activism.
Settlers, gloomily acquiescent in an unjust fate, brightened at his heralding.
The chimes (he could hear none but those of the Cathedral) were heralding the hour of seven.
And a success it proved that more than justified all the heralding of which Scaramouche had been guilty.
She might have been a new Deborah, heralding her nation to battle.
The soft light was spreading on the east, heralding the coming day.
He is heading and heralding a multitude which no man can number.
Somewhat about midnight Merthyr reached the inn, heralding the carriage.
There was a faint light in the east, heralding the approach of the sun.
It comes, as if under a new banner, heralding the turn of fortune.
late 14c., "to sound the praises of," from herald (n.). Related: Heralded; heralding.
late 13c. (in Anglo-Latin); c.1200 as a surname, "messenger, envoy," from Anglo-French heraud, Old French heraut, hiraut (12c.), perhaps from Frankish *hariwald "commander of an army," from Proto-Germanic *harja "army" (from PIE root *koro- "war;" see harry) + *waldaz "to command, rule" (see wield). The form fits, but the sense evolution is difficult to explain, unless in reference to the chief officer of a tournament, who introduced knights and made decisions on rules (which was one of the early senses, often as heraud of armes, though not the earliest in English).
