All 3 Uses of
acclaim
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- Practical suggestions being much needed, this suggestion, too, was received with acclamation, and the coach was immediately filled with eight inside and a dozen out, while as many people got on the roof of the hearse as could by any exercise of ingenuity stick upon it.†
Chpt 2.14 *acclamation = choosing without opposition or formal vote
- Loud acclamations hailed this rebuke.†
Chpt 3.9acclamations = choices made without opposition or without formal votes
- Frantic acclamations were again raised.†
Chpt 3.9
Definition:
to praise enthusiastically and publicly -- sometimes choosing without opposition or a formal vote