How to pronounce“laud”in English
nounIn 1633, William Laud had been appointed the Archbishop of Canterbury, and he had been granted an extraordinary set of arbitrary powers of suppression, actually, by the monarch.
Laud took his mission as the head of the Church of England to be the squelching of this Puritan opposition.
The most outrageous action in Laud's crackdown was his move to ban -- his attempt to ban preaching in churches.
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Definitions of “laud”
Glorification or praise.
“So doo vvell and thou ſhalt have laude of the ſame (that is to ſaye of the ruler) […]”
Hymn of praise.
To praise; to glorify.
“And hys mought was opened immediatly / and hys tonge / and he ſpake lawdynge god.”