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belaud

American  
[bih-lawd] / bɪˈlɔd /

verb (used with object)

  1. to praise excessively.


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Etymology

Origin of belaud

First recorded in 1840–50; be- + laud

Example Sentences

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What amazed me was the calm with which these folks gathered together and commenced to belaud their noble selves, their country, and their "institootions" and everything else that was theirs.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard

This is not to belaud the present system, any more than it is optimistic to say this is the best of all possible worlds.

From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel

I cannot understand those folk who sniff at the English music-hall and belaud the Parisian shows.

From Nights in London by Burke, Thomas

Crassus on this occasion, between whom and Cicero there was never much friendship, took occasion to belaud the late great Consul on account of his Catiline successes.

From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Trollope, Anthony

In the fifteenth century the fashion was to belaud one's own city even at the expense of others.

From The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Burckhardt, Jacob

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