laureate
noun
a person who has been honored for achieving distinction in a particular field or with a particular award.
laureation
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a word derived from
laureate.
Example Sentences
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Now I, for my part, have washed my hands of it; I have renounced my laureation; I am no doctor; I am only a worshipper of the true goddess Hygieia.
From Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson
Now I, for my part, have washed my hands of it; I have renounced my laureation; I am no doctor; I am only a worshipper of the true goddess Hygieia.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Binning was not nineteen years of age at the date of his laureation.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
