All 6 Uses of

tribute
in
To the Lighthouse

But this and his pleasure in it, his glory in the phrases he made, in the ardour of youth, in his wife's beauty, in the tributes that reached him from Swansea, Cardiff, Exeter, Southampton, Kidderminster, Oxford, Cambridge—all had to be deprecated and concealed under the phrase "talking nonsense," because, in effect, he had not done the thing he might have done.†
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tributes = payments by one nation for protection by another;
or: payments extorted by gangsters on threat of violence

And, like some queen who, finding her people gathered in the hall, looks down upon them, and descends among them, and acknowledges their tributes silently, and accepts their devotion and their prostration before her (Paul did not move a muscle but looked straight before him as she passed) she went down, and crossed the hall and bowed her head very slightly, as if she accepted what they could not say: their tribute to her beauty.†
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Her tribute took that form if, as she vaguely supposed, a picture must be a tribute.†
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Her tribute took that form if, as she vaguely supposed, a picture must be a tribute.†
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And, like some queen who, finding her people gathered in the hall, looks down upon them, and descends among them, and acknowledges their tributes silently, and accepts their devotion and their prostration before her (Paul did not move a muscle but looked straight before him as she passed) she went down, and crossed the hall and bowed her head very slightly, as if she accepted what they could not say: their tribute to her beauty.†
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She had felt, now she could stand up to Mrs. Ramsay—a tribute to the astonishing power that Mrs. Ramsay had over one.†
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Definitions:

(1) (tribute as in: a tribute to the great actor)
praise or something done to express admiration or respect
(2) (tribute as in: demanded they pay tribute)
payment by one nation for protection by another;
or: payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence