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laud

/lawd/US // lɔd //UK // (lɔːd) literary //

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to praise; extol.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a song or hymn of praise.
    • : lauds,Ecclesiastical. a canonical hour, marked especially by psalms of praise, usually recited with matins.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbacclaim, praise
Forms: lauded, lauding, lauds

Examples

  • I have never met her, and I am inclined to laud her chivalry.

  • Democrats and Wall Street Republicans would laud Boehner as a hero while the right would run him out of town.

  • Holbrooke then used a Karzai visit to Washington in May to laud the Afghan leader with pomp, circumstance, and attention.

  • All the more reason to laud—or at least not pile on—evidence of action.

  • If the claims are indeed true this time, expect al Qaeda to laud its martyrs publicly.

  • Illustrius mult est id quod sequitur, & ad Barbaror sensum in Baptismi laud singulare.

  • He was the friend of Laud, by whose influence he was promoted, and by whose fall he was a great sufferer.

  • The Long Parliament voted the canons illegal; Laud was imprisoned, and in 1642 the bishops were excluded from parliament.

  • You find me, count, taking a professional and business-like survey of the laud that you promised to sell me.

  • In the reign of king Charles I. archbishop Laud put the king upon republishing this declaration, which was accordingly done.