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单词 by acclamation
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by acclamation
P1. by acclamation: by general and enthusiastic agreement or approval; (also) Canadian (of an election) by unanimous or overwhelming assent, unopposed. Now chiefly North American.
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1668 T. Douglas tr. J. Porrée Vitis Degeneris 106 After that the President hath given thanks, and all the People hath by acclamation consented.
1789 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) I. 325 The Representatives of this nation..are ready to swallow this proposition by acclamation.
1827 Gore Gaz. (Ancaster, Upper Canada) 8 Dec. 161/2 The friends of Mr. Papineau intended that the election should be carried unanimously, and by acclamation, in his favor.
1860 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) VI. xxxi. 196 The spirit which thirty years before had passed the Six Articles Bill by acclamation.
1912 J. Sandilands Western Canad. Dict. & Phrase-bk. Acclamation, a candidate who is unanimously elected to office without the trouble of going to the poll is said to be elected by acclamation.
1964 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 8 Oct. 20/1 Stephen Juba..became the first mayor from this city to be elected by acclamation in nearly a quarter of a century.
1984 Congress. Q. Weekly Rep. 23 June 1506/1 Boschwitz was nominated by acclamation at the GOP state convention.
2005 West Island Suburban (Canada) 26 Oct. 19/2 The persons elected by acclamation are: District number 6: Glenn J. Nashen.
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