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Definition of Laudatory
1. Adjective. Full of or giving praise. "A laudatory remark"
Definition of Laudatory
1. a. Of or pertaining praise, or to the expression of praise; as, laudatory verses; the laudatory powers of Dryden.
Definition of Laudatory
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to praise, or the expression of praise; as, '''laudatory''' verses; the '''laudatory''' powers of Dryden - Sir J. Stephen ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Laudatory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laudatory
Literary usage of Laudatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poems of William Dunbar by William Dunbar, Aeneas James George Mackay, George Powell McNeill (1893)
"V. laudatory POEMS OR PANEGYRICS. The panegyric or laudatory style, which specially
befitted Dunbar's office of Court poet, was the least congenial to a ..."
2. The Book of Fallacies: From Unfinished Papers of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, Peregrine Bingham (1824)
"laudatory Personalities. Ad amicitiam. PERSONALITIES of this class are the ...
laudatory personalities are susceptible of the same number of modifications ..."
3. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"laudatory opinions in prose by the masters of Peterhouse, Christ's, and Trinity,
and the president of Queens', and by two professors of divinity are ..."
4. A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English by John Payne Collier (1866)
"The poem has no design, but is a rambling laudatory and emblematical composition,
far from discreditable to ..."
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