laudative
/ˈlɔːdətɪv
/adjective rare
Expressing praise and commendation: he was justly laudative about the quality of the performance...
- He motivated his students and friends to make laudative descriptions of their homelands.
- Their ballads were laudative of the Prince of Orange.
- He writes these laudative words in the Introduction to the first edition of his Treatise on Mental Alienation.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin laudativus, from laudat- 'praised', from the verb laudare (see laud).