Adulation vs Laud - What's the difference?
adulation | laud |
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.}}
* 1919 , ,
or glorification.
* Shakespeare
* Tyndals
Hymn of praise.
(in the plural, also Lauds) A prayer service following matins.
(intransitive) to praise, to glorify
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke I:
As a noun adulation
is flattery; fulsome praise.As a proper noun laud is
.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; [...]
Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
* admiration * adorationAnagrams
* ----laud
English
Noun
(en noun)- Laud be to God.
- So do well and thou shalt have laud of the same.
Verb
(en verb)- And hys mought was opened immediatly, and hys tonge, and he spake lawdynge god.