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Definition of Applauses
1. applause [n] - See also: applause
Lexicographical Neighbors of Applauses
Literary usage of Applauses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"The king observed their meeting eyes With something like displeased surprise ;
A glance, where seemed to reign The pride that claims applauses due, ..."
2. Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America: During by John Davis (1909)
"I expected that William Henry would receive the applauses of his friends for the
presence of mind he had displayed in killing the rattlesnake; ..."
3. Origines Ecclesiasticæ: Or, The Antiquities of the Christian Church, and by Joseph Bingham, Richard Bingham (1840)
"How the People were used to give public applauses and Acclamations to the Preacher
in the Church. It was a much more general custom for the people to ..."