2. Verb. (third-person singular of laud) ¹
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Definition of Lauds
1. laud [v] - See also: laud
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lauds
Literary usage of Lauds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"lauds.—In the Roman Liturgy of to-day lauds designates an office ... All the
Canonical Hours have, of course, the same object, but lauds may be said to have ..."
2. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, James Hammond Trumbull, Charles Jeremy Hoadly, Council of Safety (Conn.). (1874)
"and the lands that are granted to be laid out in said Goshen: Resolved by this
Assembly, that all the lauds already laid out in said Goshen, and those lands ..."
3. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Ralph Francis Kerr, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus (1902)
"The singing of lauds was formally prescribed in their statutes. ... The composer
of these lauds frequently belonged to the highest and most cultivated ..."
4. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"My sire, in native virtue great, Resigning lordship, lauds, and state, Not then
to fortune more resigned Than yonder oak might give the wind; The graceful ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"of this sequence, Laudes, and that Low Sunday is merely a corruption of Laud or
lauds Sunday. When I first met with this solution, it appeared to me so ..."
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