Ardent vs Laudatory - What's the difference?
ardent | laudatory |
Full of ardor; fervent, passionate.
* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 43
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Burning; glowing; shining.
Of or pertaining to praise, or the expression of praise.
* 1853 , Sir James Stephen, "On Desultory and Systematic Reading"
As adjectives the difference between ardent and laudatory
is that ardent is full of ardor; fervent, passionate while laudatory is of or pertaining to praise, or the expression of praise.ardent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This ardent exploration, absorbing all his energy and interest, made him forget for the moment the mystery of his heritage and the anomaly that cut him off from all his fellows.
citation, passage=I see by your eagerness and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be informed of the secret with which I am acquainted; that cannot be; listen patiently until the end of my story, and you will easily perceive why I am reserved upon that subject. I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and infallible misery.}}
Anagrams
* ----laudatory
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- laudatory verses
- The comparison of these two passages will probably have suggested to you the fact of the immense superiority of the satirical over the laudatory powers of Dryden.