单词 | plauditory |
释义 | plauditoryadj. Applausive; laudatory, expressive of approval. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > applause > [adjective] plausible1542 plausive1595 applausive1609 applauseful1630 acclamatory1657 plauditory1658 ovationary1852 1658 ‘W. R.’ Let. 9 Feb. in C. H. Firth Clarke Papers (1899) III. 139 His Highnesse called together all the officers of the Army that could redily bee warned about the towne, and it's said there were 200, to whom hee spake in a very large discourse of about two houres; upon the conclusion whereof they gave a plauditory acclamation. 1709 T. D'Urfey Mod. Prophets (front matter) Tho' I could with great ease raise a number of Plants in relation to your Merit of this plauditory nature; yet for fear of an Author's general Vice..I will here withdraw my Pen. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 338 They very soon begin to know when they have their friends about them, and receive encouragement from plauditory gestures or tones of voice, before they can understand your words. 1847 H. Taylor Heroism in Shade in Minor Poems i A thousand journals teem with good report And plauditory paragraph. 1866 J. G. Holland Life A. Lincoln xxx. 515 Across the ocean came appreciative and plauditory words from other continents. 1986 Fortune (Nexis) 12 May 119 We cannot aver with certitude that his remarks at the bank's annual exporters' conference a few weeks ago were plauditory. 1997 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 24 June 37 We have been promised that Kuala Lumpur '98 will be ‘the best ever Commonwealth Games even without the billboards’. Highly plauditory if not exactly plausible. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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