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Webster 1913 Edition
Laudatory
Laud′a-to-ry
,Adj.
[L.
laudatorius
: cf. OF. laudatoire
.] Of or pertaining praise, or to the expression of praise;
as,
laudatory
verses; the laudatory
powers of Dryden. Sir J. Stephen.
Webster 1828 Edition
Laudatory
LAUD'ATORY
,Adj.
LAUD'ATORY
,Noun.
Definition 2024
laudatory
laudatory
English
Adjective
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.