Meaning of Acclaimer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who acclaims.
2. One who salutes or praises with great approval.
3. One who claims something.
   Early, Modern, Scotland, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] the voices of thousands of spectators pealing in thunder from the rocks on which their dark and crowded masses rested […] sent forth a shout⟳ of mingled triumph on their appearance and approbation of their cause; and its echoes continued to roll round the hills long after the lips of the acclaimers were closed […]”

“1912, Henry James, letter to William Dean Howells to be read⟳ at a dinner in celebration of Howells’ seventy-fifth birthday, in The North American Review⟳, Volume 195, No. 677, April 1912, p. 558, For I doubt⟳, you see⟳, whether any of your toasters and acclaimers have⟳ anything like⟳ my ground and title for being with you at such an hour.”

“All our Dispute, is, what Companie, of so manie Acclaimers, is the true Church of CHRIST.”

“And we wish⟳ heartily, that leaving these weak nots of Trueth, to the Papists, chief acclaimers of them, amongst christians, (that we speak⟳ nothing of aliens from christianity) ye would be pleased to adhere, with us into the holy Scriptures […]”

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