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Acclaim   /əklˈeɪm/   Listen
Acclaim

noun
1.
Enthusiastic approval.  Synonyms: acclamation, eclat, plaudit, plaudits.  "He acknowledged the plaudits of the crowd" , "They gave him more eclat than he really deserved"
verb
1.
Praise vociferously.  Synonyms: hail, herald.
2.
Clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval.  Synonyms: applaud, clap, spat.  Antonym: boo.






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"Acclaim" Quotes from Famous Books



... then than this? One moment she is A friendly ray given, From her home's shining heaven; Then is she the flame, High mid the temple's resounding acclaim— One moment like this Bears you up through ...
— Strife and Peace • Fredrika Bremer

... to follow him. They would rather die fighting than be hanged like rogues. It would be better to attack the Governor at once than have him come upon their rear while they were engaged in the woods with the savages.[621] And so, with universal acclaim, they gathered up their arms, and set out to give battle ...
— Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 • Thomas J. Wertenbaker

... in Gottes und Teufels Namen (The Cause of the Poor, in Heaven's name and—'s)! One full shout, breaking the leaden silence; then a gurgle of innumerable emptying bumpers, again followed by universal cheering, returned him loud acclaim. It was the finale of the night: resuming their pipes; in the highest enthusiasm, amid volumes of tobacco-smoke; triumphant, cloud-capt without and within, the assembly broke up, each to his thoughtful pillow. ...
— Sartor Resartus - The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh • Thomas Carlyle

... mistaken in believing that the phrase of the sonata did, really, exist. Human as it was from this point of view, it belonged, none the less, to an order of supernatural creatures whom we have never seen, but whom, in spite of that, we recognise and acclaim with rapture when some explorer of the unseen contrives to coax one forth, to bring it down from that divine world to which he has access to shine for a brief moment in the firmament of ours. This was what Vinteuil had done for the little phrase. Swann ...
— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust

... President of the Chamber, took his place at 3 o'clock. All the members of the House and everybody in the galleries stood up to acclaim the old ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various


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