laudatory
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Borrowed from Latin laudatōrius: compare Old French laudatoire.
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laudatory (comparative more laudatory, superlative most laudatory)
- Of or pertaining to praise, or the expression of praise.
- laudatory verses
- 1853, Sir James Stephen, On Desultory and Systematic Reading:
- The comparison of these two passages will probably have suggested to you the fact of the immense superiority of the satirical over the laudatory powers of Dryden.
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of or pertaining to praise
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