Not for me Is time for retrospection or for dreams, Not time for self-laudation or remorse.
This kind of self-laudation benefits the hearer, and changes his opinion.
With this kind of self-laudation you may see that soldiers and sailors are most taken.
And Maurice rose in disgust, not unmixed with self-laudation.
She is where I meant her to be, and where no charge of self-laudation can touch her.
Fortunately, however, we were spared listening to his self-laudation.
Back of all this self-laudation there was an ulterior motive hardly confessed to myself.
Poliziano's letter to Matthias Corvinus is a good example of his self-laudation.
Every crowd has a list of heroic names which it uses in its propaganda and in its self-laudation.
self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
late 15c., from Latin laudationem (nominative laudatio) "a praising, commendation," noun of action from past participle stem of laudare "to praise" (see laud).
