(v. t.) The act of lauding; praise; high commendation.
Example Sentences:
(1) This publication contains a short life story and a laudation of the work of Ernst Friedrich Gurlt, which was active at the Veterinary School at Berlin more than a half century, from 1819 to 1870.
(2) His oath followed a laudation by the deputy head of the constitutional court, Maher Sami, in which Sami described Sisi as a "rebel soldier", and strived to present him as a revolutionary hero rather than as the mastermind of a controversial coup.
Plaudit
Definition:
(n.) A mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shavit’s new book, My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel , has received plaudits from the cream of the liberal, American, political elite.
(2) Merkel has won international plaudits for her liberal, open-door policies.
(3) Russia's strongman garners tacit support, and even some quiet plaudits, from some of the world's most important emerging powers, starting with China and India.
(4) By contrast, he offers no such plaudits for Ed Miliband.
(5) A glance at today's Sun provides a stark reminder that constitutional reform is no way to win easy plaudits from the papers that most voters read.
(6) The compelling television series The Returned , which concludes on Sunday on Channel 4, and several award-winning titles from French authors are earning fresh international plaudits for Gallic storytelling and proving that it is not only Norway, Sweden and Denmark that can offer a bleak outlook and a half-lit landscape.
(7) They need a reliable finisher, Wilfried Bony never having been satisfactorily replaced, but otherwise they are still the side that won so many plaudits last season and against City they showed it.
(8) When you go up from the Championship everyone says how great you are and you sit there and take the plaudits, so when the team goes down I’ll take the brunt of the blame,” said the Scot.
(9) Storehouse later sold BHS for £200m in 2000 to Green, and he quickly won plaudits for the speed with which he brought it back to profitability.
(10) Photograph: REX Shutterstock Nicky Morgan S ecretary of state for education and minister for women and equalities Morgan dramatically increased her majority at the election and she will keep both of her ministerial briefs, where she won plaudits especially for her rethink on equal marriage, which she had previously opposed.
(11) Benteke and the tireless Andreas Weimann take the plaudits for their four passes that pierced the Liverpool defence and saw the Austrian forward sweep home Benteke's exquisite back-heel.
(12) Instead the commotion was caused by the hulking figure in the front row who, after Haye had taken the plaudits for his fifth-round stoppage of Chisora, and his beaten opponent had accepted he had been floored by the better man, walked over to the top table and challenged the victor to a fight of their own.
(13) Based on the 1968 Philip K Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Blade Runner was not a box office or critical hit at the time but has gathered plaudits over the years.
(14) This year she won plaudits from fellow peers and disability activists alike over a series of trenchant interventions on the controversial welfare reform bill .
(15) The rolling news station had been winning plaudits but had its broadcast hours halved on Freeview, the platform on which it performs best.
(16) Koudera's departure comes after HTC generally won plaudits from reviewers for the design of its HTC One flagship phone, which uses an aluminium case; many preferred it over the Galaxy S4.
(17) Justaneyah's friend Samar Bedawi, who also drives her car around the Red Sea city of Jeddah, said the sentence undermined the king's speech, which had won plaudits from the international community.
(18) But that’s the case tonight, and Bradley, who got none of the plaudits or praise normally reserved for an upset victory over one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the history of the game, has made it clear that he’s out to take what he thinks is his.
(19) However, any plaudits he may receive from his reaction to the latest attacks are thought unlikely to convert into votes for the Socialist party, trailing third in the polls.
(20) Green won plaudits for quickly bringing it back to profitability.