Both Uses of
acclaim
in
Don Quixote
- Don Quixote and Sancho mounted once more, and with the same music and acclamations reached their conductor's house, which was large and stately, that of a rich gentleman, in short; and there for the present we will leave them, for such is Cide Hamete's pleasure.†
Chpt 2.61-62acclamations = choices made without opposition or without formal votes
- It came to pass, however, that as Don Quixote was proceeding amid the acclamations that have been described, a Castilian, reading the inscription on his back, cried out in a loud voice, "The devil take thee for a Don Quixote of La Mancha!†
Chpt 2.61-62 *
Definition:
to praise enthusiastically and publicly -- sometimes choosing without opposition or a formal vote