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acclaimed
1. adj. Greatly praised or lauded, revered, highly respected.
Many critically acclaimed novels are not commercially successful.
She's an acclaimed writer, her books are bestsellers before they are published.
acclaim
1. v. (archaic, transitive) To shout; to call out.
2. v. (intransitive) To shout approval; to express great approval.
3. v. (transitive, rare) To salute or praise with great approval; to compliment; to applaud; to welcome enthusiastically.
4. v. (transitive, obsolete) To claim.
5. v. To declare by acclamations.
6. v. (Canada, politics) To elect to an office by having no opposition.
7. n. (poetic) An acclamation; a shout of applause.
8. n. (obsolete) A claim.

Example Sentences

Had she been given any choice in the matter, you'd think, she would have been unlikely to pass her baton to an Irish Catholic, no matter how acclaimed, how lyrical, how morally fastidious she might be.  Lukewarm reviews of his first two novels in French angered him so much, that he refused to publish this, his third, until it had been acclaimed elsewhere.  I didn't become an acclaimed tipster by advising punters not to invest.

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