Acclaim vs Adulation - What's the difference?
acclaim | adulation |
(archaic) To shout; to call out.
To shout approval; to express great approval.
* 1911 , (Saki), The Chronicles of Clovis
*:The design, when finally developed, was a slight disappointment to Monsieur Deplis, who had suspected Icarus of being a fortress taken by Wallenstein in the Thirty Years' War, but he was more than satisfied with the execution of the work, which was acclaimed by all who had the privilege of seeing it as Pincini's masterpiece.
(rare) To salute or praise with great approval; to compliment; to applaud; to welcome enthusiastically.
* A glad acclaiming train. - Thomson
(obsolete) To claim.
To declare by acclamations.
* While the shouting crowd / Acclaims thee king of traitors. - Smollett
(Canada, politics) To elect to an office by having no opposition.
Flattery; fulsome praise.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=3
, passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}
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As nouns the difference between acclaim and adulation
is that acclaim is an acclamation; a shout of applause while adulation is flattery; fulsome praise.As a verb acclaim
is to shout; to call out.acclaim
English
Etymology 1
* First attested in the early 14th century. * (to applaud) First attested in the 1630's. * From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* acclaimable * acclaimerEtymology 2
* First attested in 1667.Synonyms
* See alsoAnagrams
* English words prefixed with ad-adulation
English
Noun
(en noun)- It is still possible to discuss his place in art, and the adulation of his admirers is perhaps no less capricious than the disparagement of his detractors; [...]