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Present participle of applaud
Used in a sentence
“August 3, 1852, Rufus Choate, Address on Kossuth and Non-Intervention The tribute of tears and applaudings; the tribute of sympathy and of thoughts too deep for applaudings — too deep for tears, have attested his sway.”
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