applause
noun
hand clapping as a demonstration of approval, appreciation, acclamation, or the like.
self-applause
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a word derived from
applause.
Example Sentences
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In a shambles of sight gags, unfinished sentences and self-applause, Milton Berle last week returned to TV.
From Time Magazine Archive
As one hears them giving a most delightful vent to their loquacity, the artistic house-hunter feels all the righteous self-applause of a kindly deed.
From Certain Personal Matters by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Here was employment the bare thought of which, was righteous self-applause.
From The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Here was employment the bare thought of which was righteous self-applause.
From When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Then there were weepings and gnashings of teeth, and there were the congratulations and self-applause of the victors.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Anthony Trollope
