He loved poetry—science was merely an acquisition, which he laid aside when unobserved like his European dress—and this evening he longed to compose a new song which should be acclaimed by multitudes and even sung in the fields.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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Merriam-Webster
— enthusiastically praised
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Macmillan
— publicly written and talked about in an admiring way
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Collins
— publicly acknowledged as excellent
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Other Word Forms
acclaim
acclaiming
acclaims
Usage
1 use of ‘acclaimed’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster