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Definition of: laud
(lôd) noun
1. Praise or commendation; extolment.
2. The part of divine worship that consists chiefly of praise; also, a song of praise or honor.
3. plural A religious service consisting of the psalms immediately following matins, and constituting with the latter the first of the seven canonical hours: sometimes Lauds. See synonyms under PRAISE.
—v.t. To praise; extol. [<OF laude <L laus, laudis praise]
—laud′er noun
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