Some—including some in the government—lauded these efforts as heralding a new and positive kind of activism.
I sat in the gallery, and in my memory can almost hear now Mr. Harper, the great trumpeter, 'heralding' the wedding party.
Settlers, gloomily acquiescent in an unjust fate, brightened at his heralding.
With a heralding bark he flew into the listed field and made straight for the white champion.
She might have been a new Deborah, heralding her nation to battle.
Christianity, which began as a revolutionary idealism, had sunk into heralding materialistic revolution.
The soft light was spreading on the east, heralding the coming day.
I suppose it was heralding August, the month of these flying flames.
Somewhat about midnight Merthyr reached the inn, heralding the carriage.
Then it lightened, and the clear whistle of a bird rang out as if heralding the end.
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).
late 14c., "to sound the praises of," from herald (n.). Related: Heralded; heralding.
