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to praise, glorify, or honor

He lauded U.S. efforts to broker peace.

Three years afterwards he gave new offence to Laud by publishing a pamphlet against the hierarchy.
Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper
As a consequence, I must sometimes appear at public functions where I am lauded as a saviour of the public health.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
They are eager to wear their new status as ladies, to be paraded about and lauded until they see themselves with new eyes.
Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
She did not stay to retaliate, but re-entered in a minute, bearing a reaming silver pint, whose contents I lauded with becoming earnestness.
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
CI-DEVANT GENIUS OF THE AGE The proper folks one's talents laud: Come on, and none shall pass us!
Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) -- Faust
Many of the letters lauded his efforts, too.
Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea
Laud be to God! even there my life must end.
William Shakespeare -- Henry IV, Part 2
Benjamin Bache turned with a fury on the President he had so recently lauded as a prudent, high-minded man of integrity.
David McCullough -- John Adams
The crime was sensationalized by the local media, which lauded the police and prosecutor for coming to the aid of a defenseless infant.
Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
Well, God be thanked for these rebels; they offend none but the virtuous: I laud them, I praise them.
William Shakespeare -- Henry IV, Part 1
My ugly tweed librarian outfit was lauded as the most work-appropriate.
Piper Kerman -- Orange Is the New Black
Did the hall ring with it as those pansy-boys and their soft ladies applauded and lauded him?
Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
He has been lauded everywhere he has traveled in the small island nation, hailed as a victorious returning son.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
Upon Messner's return to civilization, his ascent was widely lauded as the greatest mountaineering feat of all time.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
And without missing a beat, those highly paid newspeople become national heroes, lauded back home in the press and on television.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
It's good to see y'all this day—the Laud's day!
Peter Jenkins -- A Walk Across America
It makes the smell of Estee Lauder's Beautiful, Clinique's Happy, Ralph Lauren's Polo, and Calvin Klein's Eternity.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
Rawdon's generosity, when they were first married, has already been described and lauded.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
Some who were lauded as shining examples of patriotism looked hardly fit for battle, like the Connecticut unit comprised entirely of "aged gentlemen."
David G. McCullough -- 1776

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