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verb

Applaud v. t. (past & past part. applauded; pres. part. applauding)

To show approval of by clapping the hands, acclamation, or other significant sign. "I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again."

To praise by words; to express approbation of; to commend; to approve. "By the gods, I do applaud his courage."

Synonyms: To praise; extol; commend; cry up; magnify; approve. See Praise.

Applaud v. i. To express approbation loudly or significantly.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Applaud" Quotes from Famous Books

... aloud, "you are good enough to ask my opinion whether you ought to tell Mr. Milcher. My advice to you is: Don't. I applaud your conversion. But as you say, a promise is a promise—even if it's a naughty promise. You did wrong to promise. You will suffer for that, and don't think your conversion will save you from suffering, because it won't. Don't run away ...

— Mr. Prohack • E. Arnold Bennett

... over with a rush at the end, leaving the audience uncertain whether after all enough attention had been paid to that tradition of the footlights which insists on so nice a sense of opprobrium and compensation, but convinced of its desire to applaud. Duff Lindsay turned as the wave of clapping spent itself, to say to Stephen that he had never respected Hamilton Bradley's acting so much. He said it to Herbert Livingstone instead; ...

— The Path of a Star • Mrs. Everard Cotes (AKA Sara Jeannette Duncan)

... my heart, you had been for an hour this morning," thought the son. After arguing for some time longer, they compromised, by agreeing to leave it to the decision of Colonel Egerton, who, the mother did not doubt, would applaud her maintaining; the Jarvis dignity, a family in which he took quite as much interest as he felt for his own—so he had told her fifty times. The captain, however, determined within himself to touch the five hundred, let the colonel decide as ...

— Precaution • James Fenimore Cooper

... not applaud the announcement that you had nearly done," said the Vicar, "but the fact that the experiment was ...

— The Vast Abyss - The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam • George Manville Fenn

... seemed anything but educational, and he'd had to skip a good class for this one. He shrugged. Of course, everyone else had skipped one class or another, he knew. So why should he be an exception? Too, some of the students would welcome and applaud anything that gave them a break from their studies. And the schedule probably took account of this sort of thing ...

— The Best Made Plans • Everett B. Cole

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