laudators

Yet there were they arrogating to themselves every privilege of judgment and jurisdiction that the most fashionable peers or the sublimest souls could claim; to their own minds the arbiters of elegance, the patrons of the arts, the flagellators of vice and snobbery, the gracious laudators of virtue, the easy fomenters of scandal.

Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

To the critical mind it is somewhat amusing to note the enthusiasm with which the modern Dissenting and Puritan class contemplates the period of which we are writing -- an enthusiasm that would probably be effectively damped if the laudators of the Reformation knew the real character of the movement and of its principal actors.

German Culture Past and Present Ernest Belfort Bax 1890

-- and there were persons of discrimination among the laudators of Robert Cortes Holliday.

When Winter Comes to Main Street Grant Martin Overton 1908