laudation

[law-dey-shuhn]

noun

1. an act or instance of lauding; encomium; tribute.

laudation

/ lɔːˈdeɪʃən /

noun

1. a formal word for praise

Other Word Forms

• interlaudation noun
• overlaudation noun
• self-laudation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of laudation¹

1425–75; late Middle English laudacion < Latin laudātiōn- (stem of laudātiō ) a praising, equivalent to laudāt ( us ) (past participle of laudāre to laud ) + -iōn- -ion

Example Sentences

Because throughout the book, much of her laudation—like the excess praise she’s heaped on Biden in the past few weeks, after smoking him out of his life’s achievement—goes to those she’s felled.

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Part of the reason Sanders has ticked up is that the Warren campaign, after months of steadily rising in the polls and receiving near-universal laudation for the brilliance of its every move, has finally stalled out—or even ticked down a notch.

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His pluck in walking six hundred miles through the woods and mires, under a broiling sun, to interview Livingstone, and the enterprise of the New York Herald in sending him, have formed the subject of many columns of laudation in the various British papers.

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What he has said in its praise, and in praise of its environs, would be said of Timbuctoo had he the same knowledge of the African city that he has of Dublin, and were Timbuctoo and its environs as worthy of laudation.

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To this contributed in no small degree the insane laudation of poverty by the Franciscans and the merit conceded to a life of beggary by the immense popularity of the Mendicant Orders.

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