laud

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//lɔːd//(Received Pronunciation)

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Verb Conjugation Tables & Inflections

Key Verb Forms & Inflections
Third-person singular (he/she/it):lauds
Present Participle (-ing):lauding
Past Participle:lauded
Simple Past:lauded

Definitions & Usage

noun
#1

Glorification or praise.

noun
#2

Hymn of praise.

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noun
#3

(in the plural, also Lauds) A prayer service following matins.

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verb
#4

(transitive, intransitive) To praise; to glorify.

Translations:[DE]preisen

Notable Literary & Historical Quotes

So doo vvell and thou ſhalt have laude of the ſame (that is to ſaye of the ruler) […]

1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “The Obedience of Subiectes vnto Kynges Princes and Rulers. The .XIIJ. Chapter of Paul Rom.”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]: [Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folio xxxiij, verso:

Laud be to God

c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:

And hys mought was opened immediatly / and hys tonge / and he ſpake lawdynge god.

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke j:[64], folio lxxiij, verso:

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