laudation
/lɔːˈdeɪʃ(ə)n
/noun [mass noun] formal
Praise; commendation: he was singled out for laudation [count noun]: laudations of her beauty...
- Tea and supper were provided and all were loud in their laudations at the many good things on the tables before them.
- The tree has seeds with holes, which have been used by visitors to make ‘tasbih,’ a string of 100 beads to recite laudations to God.
- The historical background of such orations dates back to the laudation orations of classical times.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin laudatio(n-), from the verb laudare (see laud).
- operatee
- operatic
- operatical
- operatically
- operatics
- operating budget
- operating crew
- operating instructions
- operating manual
- operating profit
- operating room
- operating system
- operating table
- operating theatre
- operating voltage
- operation
- operational
- operational amplifier
- operational area
- operational expenditure
- operationalisable
- operationalisation
- operationalise
- operationalism
- operationalist