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Word Meanings - ILLAUDABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not laudable; not praise-worthy; worthy of censure or disapprobation. Milton. -- Il*laud"a*bly, adv. Broome.

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  • PRAISEWORTHINESS
    The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
  • CENSURER
    One who censures. Sha.
  • LAUDABLE
    Healthy; salubrious; normal; having a disposition to promote healing; not noxious; as, laudable juices of the body; laudable pus. Arbuthnot. (more info) 1. Worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; as, laudable motives; laudable actions;
  • PRAISER
    1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
  • LAUDABLENESS
    The quality of being laudable; praiseworthiness; commendableness.
  • DISAPPROBATION
    The act of disapproving; mental condemnation of what is judged wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; feeling of censure. We have ever expressed the most unqualified disapprobation of all the steps. Burke.
  • PRAISEMENT
    Appraisement.
  • CENSURE
    1. Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Shak. 2. The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame. Both the censure and the praise were merited.
  • PRAISELESS
    Without praise or approbation.
  • PRAISEWORTHILY
    In a praiseworthy manner. Spenser.
  • WORTHY
    worthi, wurÞi, from worth, wurÞ, n.; cf. Icel. verthugr, D. waardig, 1. Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous. Full worthy was he in his lordes war. Chaucer. These banished men that
  • PRAISE
    fr. pretium price. See Price, n., and cf. Appreciate, Praise, n., 1. To commend; to applaud; to express approbation of; to laud; -- applied to a person or his acts. "I praise well thy wit." Chaucer. Let her own works praise her in the gates. Prov.
  • MILTONIAN
    Miltonic. Lowell.
  • MILTONIC
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
  • PRAISE-MEETING
    A religious service mainly in song.
  • PRAISEFUL
    Praiseworthy.
  • PRAISEWORTHY
    Worthy of praise or applause; commendable; as, praiseworthy action; he was praiseworthy. Arbuthnot.
  • APPRAISER
    One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
  • OVERPRAISE
    To praise excessively or unduly.
  • SUPERPRAISE
    To praise to excess. To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts. Shak.
  • APPRAISE
    1. To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels. 2. To estimate; to conjecture. Enoch . . . appraised his weight. Tennyson. 3. To praise; to commend. R. Browning.
  • LAUGHWORTHY
    Deserving to be laughed at. B. Jonson.
  • SEAWORTHY
    Fit for a voyage; worthy of being trusted to transport a cargo with safety; as, a seaworthy ship.
  • HAMILTON PERIOD
    A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
  • MISCENSURE
    To misjudge. Daniel. -- n.
  • DISPRAISER
    One who blames or dispraises.

 

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