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Applause vs Euge - What's the difference?

applause | euge |

As nouns the difference between applause and euge

is that applause is the act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by the clapping of hands, stamping or tapping of the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation while euge is (obsolete|rare) applause.

applause

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by the clapping of hands, stamping or tapping of the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation.
  • * {{quote-book, 1904, author=(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), title=(The Return of Sherlock Holmes), chapter=(The Adventure of the Six Napoleons) citation
    • , passage=Lestrade and I sat silent for a moment, and then, with a spontaneous impulse, we both broke at clapping, as at the well-wrought crisis of a play. A flush of colour sprang to Holmes's pale cheeks, and he bowed to us like the master dramatist who receives the homage of his audience. It was at such moments that for an instant he ceased to be a reasoning machine, and betrayed his human love for admiration and applause . The same singularly proud and reserved nature which turned away with disdain from popular notoriety was capable of being moved to its depths by spontaneous wonder and praise from a friend.}}

    Derived terms

    * applauseometer

    Synonyms

    * acclaim, acclamation, approbation, approval, commendation, plaudit

    See also

    * *

    External links

    * (wikipedia "applause") ----

    euge

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete, rare) applause
  • * Henry Hammond
    • No such good news to heaven as this; not only approbation, but joy in heaven over one such convert prodigal: the music that Pythagoras talks of in the orbs, was that of the minstrels which our Saviour mentions at the return of that prodigal, to solemnize the euge' s, the passionate welcomes of heaven poured out on penitents.
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