Definition of "acclamation" []

• A shout or salute of enthusiastic approval. (noun)
• An oral vote, especially an enthusiastic vote of approval taken without formal ballot: a motion passed by acclamation. (noun)

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• "One indication of this change is the disappearance of an acclamation from the Church's official prayers and chants."
• "As to a dear friend Mother Church bids farewell to her beloved Alleluia on the Saturday before Septuagesima Sunday, when at the end of Vespers the acclamation is sung twice after the Benedicamus Domino and the choir responds with its twofold repetition following the Deo gratias."
• "Upon the other meanings which have been attached to the word acclamation some of them rather strained it does not seem necessary to speak at length."