All 6 Uses
acclaim
in
All the Bright Places, by Niven
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- On March 23,1950, Italian poet Cesare Pavese wrote: "Love is truly the great manifesto; the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation—in short, to remain a memory."†
p. 56.8acclamation = choosing without opposition or formal vote
- While I'm not sure taking off your shoes in a strange hotel room and swallowing too many sleeping pills is what I would call dying valiantly and with acclamation, it's the thought that counts.†
p. 57.3
- I feel the rush and then some—I feel everything around me and in me, the road and my blood and my heart beating up into my throat, and I could end right now, in a valiant acclamation of crushed metal and explosive fire.†
p. 57.7
- "It means 'the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation—in short, to remain a memory" She goes quiet, as if she's thinking this over.†
p. 139.1 *
- Let's see if there's any valiant acclamation to this.†
p. 278.6
- There's no acclamation here.†
p. 278.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(acclaim) to praise enthusiastically and publicly -- sometimes choosing without opposition or a formal vote
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)