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  • noun Plural form of applauder.

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Examples

  • No, we must deal with the current chaos by being more than mere observers and applauders of New Orleans 'past culture.

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

  • No sign of post-Act I applauders, and there always are some and some 'shush'ers.

    Now what gives here? Patrick J. Smith 2008

  • The greeters at discount stores are potential applauders.

    The Sound Of Two Hands Clapping 2008

  • Don't roll over for those treacherous fair-weather Foley hush-ups and Vitter applauders.

    Frank Dwyer: Hold On, Larry! 2008

  • But if you were to stop them all in the middle of their applause, you would probably find that neither the speaker nor his applauders could tell you how or in what way it was so; neither the one nor the other having the slightest idea of what they mean when they speak of the

    Essays 2007

  • And that we are to hope better of all these supposed sects and schisms, and that we shall not need that solicitude, honest perhaps, though over-timorous, of them that vex in this behalf, but shall laugh in the end at those malicious applauders of our differences, I have these reasons to persuade me.

    Areopagitica 2007

  • And that we are to hope better of all these supposed sects and schisms, and that we shall not need that solicitude, honest perhaps, though over-timorous, of them that vex in this behalf, but shall laugh in the end at those malicious applauders of our differences, I have these reasons to persuade me.

    Areopagitica 2007

  • Ay, Belford, applauders, repeat I; for although these girls pretend to blame me sometimes for the facts, they praise my manner, my invention, my intrepidity. —

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Those stories must drag horribly, that have not more hearers and applauders than relaters.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • North British, predetermined applauders, under the banner of Major

    The Life of Oliver Goldsmith 2004

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