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ac·claim

(ə-klām′)

v. ac·claimed, ac·claim·ing, ac·claims

v.tr.

1. To praise enthusiastically and often publicly. See Synonyms at praise.

2. To acknowledge or declare with enthusiastic approval: She was acclaimed person of the year.

v.intr.

To shout approval.

Enthusiastic praise; acclamation.

[From Latin acclāmāre : ad-, ad- + clāmāre, to shout; see kelə- in Indo-European roots.]

ac·claim′er n.

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This innocence has been agreed upon by both critics and acclaimers of Brooke, and it is this piece of the Rupert Brooke myth which is the most problematic.

Rupert Brooke and Isaac Rosenberg: myth, modernity, and the destabilization of "Georgian War Poetry"

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