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Definition of acclaim:

  • (verb) praise vociferously | To express great approval
  • (noun) enthusiastic approval

Sentence Examples:

Pasteur was, he wrote, the one most enthusiastically acclaimed of all who received degrees.

Feeling rather light-headed, I heartily acclaimed his suggestion, and we repaired to his laboratory.

Lindsey, instead of enthusiastically acclaiming it as a promising one, began to ask him questions.

Conservatives opposed him, but the younger element immediately acclaimed him as their leader.

Nothing should be or can be acclaimed as beautiful unless it appears beautiful to the spectator.

Very justly, then, has Darwin been universally acclaimed as 'the Newton of Natural History.'

Slowly but surely attention gave place to admiration, admiration to enthusiasm, enthusiasm to triumphant acclaim.

On my interpreting the old fellow's suggestion he and it were received with universal acclaim.

He had also gained reputation as a novelist for his acclaimed book, Sorrowing Lies My Land.

The picture was executed with much dash and was enthusiastically acclaimed by the audience.

And an admiring public always endorses, and acclaims the heavy sentence of imprisonment awarded.

It received immediate recognition and in due time was acclaimed the greatest religious book produced in England.

He received the cheers, the acclaim of the populace; the decorations of governments and royalty!

Not alone the two thousand dollars, but tremendous acclaim by the people awaits your success.

Washington occupied a place of honor alongside the President, and was almost as heartily acclaimed.

They liked and admired the college students and accepted their alliance with enthusiastic acclaim.

His friends gave a banquet, to which I was invited, and we were both enthusiastically acclaimed.

He wrote two stories which critics acclaimed, which are still remembered and even occasionally read.

Shepard were acclaimed by their respective supporters as men of standing, prestige and public character.

All classes acclaimed you as a woman, but nearly everybody was dubious about you as a Vestal.

None heard the others, but it was a grand acclaim of good fellowship and intense patriotism.

If this statement be true, one cannot but acclaim that a mighty responsibility rests upon it.

To Machiavelli belongs by acclaim the honor of having written the ideal biography of a State.

Are these dead failures, so utterly unrelated to some great success that we may acclaim to day?

The machine, acclaimed by the art experts, must therefore have been intended for embroidery stitching.

He held her to be beautiful in the extreme, and her prudence he secretly acclaimed as admirable.

The cheers that acclaimed his mention of the President drowned his voice for several moments.

Louder, if possible did they acclaim his calm and adequate strategy against his eighth antagonist.

Yet even his contemporaries who so acclaimed him were a little worried about Leonardo in this capacity.

"It kind of wrote itself," she says modestly of the acclaimed collection of anecdotes about mothers.

All sections praised him, and the new Lloyd George was acclaimed as something of a revelation.

To be acclaimed their sovereign by a group of people all of royal birth is indeed an honor.

As usual, Napoleon appeared about noon for the ceremony of guard-mounting, and the troops acclaimed him as usual.

She took little joy in the hearty and generous acclaim that welcomed her to her inheritance.

Germany, as I have stated in an earlier chapter, acclaimed her as one of the Fatherland's own children.

"It's lovely to be quite free and independent," Audrey had said, and the statement had been acclaimed.

In the ante-chapel, where she graciously received petitions, there was an acclaim of "Long live Queen Elizabeth!"

The hero whom the crowd acclaimed yesterday is insulted to-day should he have been overtaken by failure.

I feel very strongly that wherever these tendencies show themselves they must be acclaimed and cherished.

"Yes, yes," rose in one acclaim from a dozen or more throats after a moment of awkward uncertainty.

A new writer, if he is any good, will be acclaimed generally with more noise than he deserves.

No wonder the heavens rang with the acclaim of the people who witnessed this daily miracle.

He is also successful as a poet, his poem written at the age of twenty-three having been universally acclaimed.

Reckless of what might happen, the room instantly rang with loud acclaim in response to this appeal.

It was the recognition of these facts which immediately elicited the joyful acclaim of all true Lutherans.

His eye rested not upon the faces of those acclaiming friends, but upon something else beyond them.

Just as he reached this temporary security, a lady was borne, fainting, out of the acclaiming crowd.

The passing of the treasure was acclaimed with much enthusiasm both upon the road and in London.

Of such certainly is a living writer, now beginning to be acclaimed as he deserves, the writer Conrad.

This bold proposal was greeted with general acclaim, and instantly there was a bustle of preparation.

Bogie was the young and fairly well acclaimed genius when he came to New York four years ago.

She became aware that the Indians were swarming about her and acclaiming her a guest of unusual honor.

Streams of enthusiastic and joyous citizens met and acclaimed him at every town through which he passed.

On this account, its government should be the most distinguished on earth, its people the most acclaimed.

And each time the thunder crashed that soft hold on his thumb tightened, and Kent's soul acclaimed.

And then suddenly the cheers and shouts of acclaim were changed to cries of alarm and dismay.

The crowd excitedly acclaims the first drops of blood which the splendid bull is made to shed.

I suppose you were received with joyous acclaim by the boss, and urged to accept a raise in wages?

In 1879 appeared the great Violin Concerto, now acclaimed as one of the few masterpieces for that instrument.

For it was his name that filled throats of the acclaiming multitudes as they roared out their "Huzzahs!"

Summer's advent was greeted with frowns, but Fancy gathered an instant acclaim from twelve critical eyes.

Goodrich, for example, after a good dinner, might acclaim reforms which he was quite incapable of bringing about.

This aspect of the matter met with ready response, and everywhere our meetings ended in enthusiastic acclaim.

In some such words as these rose to the blue heavens the praise and acclaim of the grateful people.

These are soldiers in the "army with banners," and should be led and followed by acclaiming hosts.

They even acclaimed with enthusiasm the first Doge who was elected under the new law in 1172.

On April 15th the Prince and Princess of Wales landed at Kingstown and were received with tremendous acclaim.

How they must have rejoiced in her success and acclaimed her as the intellectual glory of her sex!

The canal was so much better as a carrier that it was hailed with acclaim, and waxed powerful.

This did not fail to challenge the attention of the crowds, and elicited not a little popular acclaim.

In the smaller panel to the left, Labor is crowned and all who served with toil are acclaimed.

If he could not, he would still be something of an outsider though all the world should acclaim him.

They are always talking of heroes nowadays; here is a hero, a more genuine one than many who are so acclaimed.

The stories about Conan were speedily acclaimed by our readers, and the barbarian's weird adventures became immensely popular.

Surely, he had stood at the King's right hand, and the people had adored and acclaimed them equally!

The acclaim of Whitman is nothing less than the inevitable revolt against the modern flood of book-inspired books.

While acclaimed by the masses, Jackson had many bitter enemies, some of them in the history writing class.

From house-door to house-door the streets were packed with crowds eager to see her pass and loud to acclaim her.

Final and conclusive victory brought an end to this, and he passed to the presidency amid a general acclaim.

If he had been received with acclaim in his native land, his Formosan friends' welcome was not less warm.

That wagon-load of apples was the first fruit to arrive in the Territory, and it was hailed with acclaim.

The close of the session operated as his release, and he was acclaimed in triumph by the City populace.

He knew that he had fought boldly in sieges of cities, and in tournaments was acclaimed brave and fortunate.

There had been a moment of hushed astonishment, followed by an acclaim that sent the curtain up twice again.

The real hero of the attack upon Fort McHenry, is not, perhaps, given the acclaim that should be his.

It was one of the latest compositions; one that had been acclaimed as almost as good as one of the classics.

Tom Smith called for the honors for him also; he was acclaimed in shouts of "Good old Frenchie!"

A respite, attested by glad acclaim, marked the accession of William and Mary, and the recall of Howard.

I watched the bleak, painted faces of the women and heard their false voices acclaiming the new star.

Never before in the history of the theater had there been such acclaim. Petite Jeanne took curtain after curtain.

The people, realizing that war was inevitable days before the Governments gave up hope of peace, acclaimed it with enthusiasm.

They heard none of those noble ideas of equality and liberty which they were ready to receive with enthusiastic acclaim.

Her ruler was acclaimed by Englishmen like Rhodes, and Americans like Roosevelt, as the great prince of the age.

No form of popular entertainment is acclaimed so enthusiastically as a new opera by an admired composer; none forgotten so quickly.

And others will break forth into the glad acclaim, 'I have found Him,' or rather 'been found of Him.'

Men who fall in the full tide of the strength of manhood on the battlefield can acclaim their leader.

All the voices of the earth acclaim count Arnold because from the dark trial he has come back triumphant.

Praxiteles molded a goddess in clay, and we still acclaim him after the lapse of some two thousand years.

The second half was devoted to the urgent cause of recruiting, and was not, perhaps, quite so enthusiastically acclaimed.

A thunder of clapping hands, a roar of acclaim, announced his first step, and then his calm deserted him.