Definition of "belaud" []

• To load with praise; praise greatly; extol. (verb)

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• "How shall the perplexed navigator steer his course when monitors in office accuse him on the one hand of lax precision throughout, and belaud him on the other for careful observance of detail?"
• "Celebrities from the Trans-Caucasus will belaud Roman celebrities"
• "The time has now surely come when, if our civilization is to make any fight at all against the new "red ruin and breaking up of laws," we must cease to belaud our slack-minded, latter-day "literature of rebellion" for its cleverness in making scraps of paper out of the plain laws of right and wrong."