laudator

American  

[lawd-uht-er] / ˈlɔd ət ər /

noun

• laudators
  plural

1. a person who praises or eulogizes.

2. Law. a character witness.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• laudators
  plural

Example Sentences

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Not infrequently he felt that this mysterious something was lifting up the voice of the laudator temporis acti.

From December Love by Hichens, Robert Smythe

And this frank admission ought to show that I am not your mere twaddling laudator temporis acti — your old fogey who can see no good except in his own time.

From Some Roundabout Papers by Thackeray, William Makepeace

Who was the earl whose universality of genius is described above by this "laudator temporis acti?"

From Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various

To point out the degeneracy of Florence, Dante becomes a44 laudator acti temporis in a picture of the earlier Florence that has never been equalled.

From Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 by Slattery, John T. (John Theodore)

There one must be a laudator temporis acti, for the present is wholly wretched and bad.

From In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

But what was that in the general chorus of delighted praise that went up all over the country?—and there were persons of discrimination among the laudators of Robert Cortes Holliday.

From When Winter Comes to Main Street by Overton, Grant Martin

The laudators of Young have found evidence of great executive ability in his management of the migration from Nauvoo to Utah.

From The Story of the Mormons, from the date of their origin to the year 1901 by Linn, William Alexander

He lived apart from the world, aloof from the clamour made around his name, shunning both laudators and detractors, impassive alike to invective and acclamation.

From The Devourers by Chartres, Annie Vivanti