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laud

noun
/lɔːd/UK/loːd/

Etymology

From Middle English lauden, from Old French lauder, from Latin laudō, laudāre, from laus (“praise, glory, fame, renown”), from echoic Proto-Indo-European root *leh₁wdʰ- (“song, sound”). Cognate with Old English lēoþ (“song, poem”), German Lied (“song”). Doublet of leed.

  1. derived from laudo
  2. derived from lauder
  3. inherited from lauden

Definitions

  1. Glorification or praise.

    • So doo vvell and thou ſhalt have laude of the ſame (that is to ſaye of the ruler) […]
    • Laud be to God

  2. Hymn of praise.

  3. A prayer service following matins.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. To praise

      To praise; to glorify.

      • And hys mought was opened immediatly / and hys tonge / and he ſpake lawdynge god.

    2. A surname.

    3. An unincorporated community in Washington Township, Whitley County, Indiana, United…

      An unincorporated community in Washington Township, Whitley County, Indiana, United States.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at laud. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at laud. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at laud

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA