Trophy vs Acclaim - What's the difference?
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An object, usually in the form of a statuette, cup, or shield, awarded for success in a competition or to mark a special achievement.
An object taken as a prize by a hunter or conqueror, especially one that is displayed.
* Dryden
Any emblem of success; a status symbol.
(criminology, by extension) An object taken by a serial killer or rapist as a memento of the crime.
* 1994 , Philip Jenkins, Using Murder: The Social Construction of Serial Homicide [http://books.google.com/books?id=nhXmk3Tm-SQC], ISBN 0202305252, page 117:
* 2001 , R. Michael Gordon, Alias Jack the Ripper: Beyond the Usual Whitechapel Suspects [http://books.google.com/books?id=n5PWnVtQs4MC], ISBN 0786408987, page 82:
* 2004 , Ronald F. Becker, Criminal Investigation [http://books.google.com/books?id=YDGaGSdjc6kC], ISBN 0763731684, page 168:
(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.
As nouns the difference between trophy and acclaim
is that trophy is while acclaim is (poetic) an acclamation; a shout of applause.As a verb acclaim is
(archaic|transitive) to shout; to call out.trophy
English
Noun
(trophies)- He won the trophy in a running competition.
- Around the posts hung helmets, darts, and spears, / And captive chariots, axes, shields, and bars, / And broken beaks of ships, the trophies of their wars.
- The set of antlers which hung on the wall was his prized trophy .
- His trophies included his second wife, his successful children, the third and fourth homes in Palm Beach and Malibu, his three yachts (for the Pacific, the Atlantic, and the Mediterranean), his jet, and his mistresses.
- The souvenirs which many killers retain of their victims are often described as trophies , and Norman Bates's taxidermic interests derived from the real-life Ed Gein.
- A trophy from this murder would have been of great importance.
- The offender is also likely to mentally relive his killings, often with the help of souvenirs or trophies , such as a bracelet or a body part taken from the victim.