[ad. L. laudātiōn-em, n. of action f. laudāre to LAUD.] The action of praising; an instance of this, a laudatory inscription. Also, the condition of being praised, as † to be or to have in laudation.
c. 1470. G. Ashby, Dicta Philos., 1232, Poems 99. And his figure in Recommendacion Shal be had, and in Laudacion.
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas., xliv. (Percy Soc.), 212. Dame Fame was in laudation.
a. 1550[?]. in Dunbar’s Poems (1893), 329. And on this day in his laudatioun Aue Redemptor Iesu! all ȝe cry.
1848. Dickens, Dombey, vii. Notwithstanding his liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish.
1865. Reader, 27 May, 589/3. Success in this matter would stamp him as a man of talent. He would be singled out for laudation.
1868. Stanley, Westm. Abb., iv. 338. As we read the long laudation on the pedestal.
