Synonyms for lauding

Grammar : Verb

Spell : lawd

Phonetic Transcription : lɔd

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Définition of lauding

Origin : late 14c., from Old French lauder "praise, extol," from Latin laudare "to praise, commend, honor, extol, eulogize," from laus (genitive laudis) "praise, fame glory." Probably cognate with Old English leoð "song, poem, hymn," from Proto-Germanic *leuthan (cf. Old Norse ljoð "strophe," German Lied "song," Gothic liuþon "to praise"), and from an echoic PIE root *leu-. Related: Lauded; lauding.

verb acclaim, praise

Example sentences :

Let no one suspect me of lauding the mockery of virtue in what I say here.
Extract from : « Jack Hinton » by Charles James Lever

For this exploit the ragamuffin is lauding him to the skies.
Extract from : « The Works of Edgar Allan Poe » by Edgar Allan Poe

Now, there is no unpopularity to-day in lauding a Jew or a Greek or an Irishman.
Extract from : « Our Part in the Great War » by Arthur Gleason

I'm compelled to stand for all this for the simple crime of not lauding the old man.
Extract from : « The Homesteader » by Oscar Micheaux

They sat about him amiably drinking, and lauding him as a fine fellow after all.
Extract from : « Black Rock » by Ralph Connor

One day he was lauding them to the skies, another depreciating them to a cipher.
Extract from : « Balzac » by Frederick Lawton

But in that case we should have no ground for ascribing these attributes to him, or lauding him for them.
Extract from : « Theodicy » by G. W. Leibniz

Let them go on as they are, hoping and waiting; lauding him to the skies as a sort of superman?
Extract from : « The Breaking Point » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

I suppose little Bessie has been lauding her up to the skies.'
Extract from : « Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 » by Various

Were you lauding the taste of my embroidery, Maister Maxwell?
Extract from : « The Fortunes of Nigel » by Sir Walter Scott

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