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From be- +‎ laud.

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belaud (third-person singular simple present belauds, present participle belauding, simple past and past participle belauded)

  1. (transitive, rare) To load with praise; praise greatly; extol.
    • 1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major:
      Not, I am bound to say, that Lindsay was belauding his own prowess. But, what was worse, he appeared a centre of enormous interest to the men around him.

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