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Laud vs Defame - What's the difference?

laud | defame |

As a proper noun laud

is .

As a verb defame is

to harm or diminish the reputation of.

laud

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • or glorification.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Laud be to God.
  • * Tyndals
  • So do well and thou shalt have laud of the same.
  • Hymn of praise.
  • (in the plural, also Lauds) A prayer service following matins.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (intransitive) to praise, to glorify
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke I:
  • And hys mought was opened immediatly, and hys tonge, and he spake lawdynge god.

    See also

    * canonical hours

    Anagrams

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    defame

    English

    Verb

    (defam)
  • To harm or diminish the reputation of.
  • to defame somebody
  • To render infamous; to bring into disrepute.
  • * Dryden
  • My guilt thy growing virtues did defame ; / My blackness blotted thy unblemish'd name.
  • To publish a libel about.
  • (archaic) To charge; to accuse.
  • * Rebecca is defamed of sorcery practised on the person of a noble knight.
  • Synonyms

    * See also