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noun Usually, plaudits.

an enthusiastic expression of approval: Her portrayal of Juliet won the plaudits of the critics.

a demonstration or round of applause, as for some approved or admired performance.

Origin:
1615–25; earlier plaudite (3 syllables) < Latin, 2nd person plural imperative of plaudere to applaud

Can be confused: platitude, plaudit.

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Tirozzi, is collecting a lot of plaudits these days.

She has received many plaudits from the local and academic community for her work.

Lip-service to the law and due process has won plaudits overseas and boosted the economy at home.

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Tirozzi, is collecting a lot of plaudits these days.

She has received many plaudits from the local and academic community for her work.

Lip-service to the law and due process has won plaudits overseas and boosted the economy at home.

Bustling newcomer winning plaudits for imaginative dishes and green credentials.

China has won international plaudits for its commitment to green goals.

Neither figure will win it any plaudits from enviros, but there you have it.

The event which to-day the commemorate supplies its own reflections and enthusiasms and brings its own plaudits.

Both men hope that the new exams watchdog will lead to similar plaudits.

Sworn to secrecy, the fill-in must stand by in silence as the star receives all the praises and plaudits.

His focus on undergraduate education and research won particular plaudits.

Feuerstein won plaudits for rebuilding the mill from top to bottom and for paying his idled workers for months.

He has won plaudits for suspending plans to build more nuclear facilities.

But the board gave him far more than undeserved plaudits.

It then scrapped its antediluvian operating system and developed an entirely new one that has won plaudits from reviewers.

Peterson to unwind those moves, though he earned plaudits for his execution.

For this reason drug courts are winning plaudits across the political spectrum.

Arizona won plaudits last year from immigration hardliners across the country.

Plaudits all around then, from the international community.

Showing your appreciation of local teams can earn you plaudits.

Efforts to realize this methodology have won plaudits from many critics and skepticism from a few others.

Yet as finance minister he earned plaudits for listening to sharp minds in the bureaucracy rather than disdaining.

Bryson for commerce secretary, a choice that drew plaudits from business and environmental.

Despite the plaudits her work received, her particular emphasis did not gain many adherents for more than a.

Plaudits for hip-hop legends have not translated into profits.

The potential benefit is a return to the peace process, with accompanying plaudits.

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Word Origin & History

plaudit

1624, short for plaudite (1567), from L. plaudite! "applaud!" second person plural imperative of plaudere "to clap, applaud, approve," of unknown origin (also in applaud, explode). This was the customary appeal for applause that Roman actors made at the end of a play.

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"When I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd
with plaudits in the capitol, still it was not a happy night for me
that follow'd,
And else when I carous'd, or when my plans were accomplish'd,
still I was not happy,
But the day when I rose at dawn from the bed of perfect health,
refresh'd, singing, inhaling the ripe breath of autumn,"

-Walt Whitman

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