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/oʊvˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Ovation n.

(Rom. Antiq.) A lesser kind of triumph allowed to a commander for an easy, bloodless victory, or a victory over slaves.

Hence: An expression of popular homage; the tribute of the multitude to a public favorite. "To rain an April of ovation round Their statues."

Especially: A prolonged applause for a person of group after a speech or performance.

standing ovation a prolonged applause during which the audience stands as a sign of special appreciation or admiration.

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Etymology of 'Ovation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Massachusetts soldiers who had been wounded on their way to Washington. "I don't believe there is any North. . . " he exclaimed. "You are the only Northern realities."(3) But even then relief was at hand. The Seventh New York, which had marched down Broadway amid such an ovation as never before was given any regiment in America, had come by sea to Annapolis. At noon on April twenty-fifth, it reached Washington bringing, along with the welcome sight of its own bayonets, the news that the North had risen, that thousands ...

— Lincoln • Nathaniel Wright Stephenson

... allusions, toilfully compiled and ardently believed in, were received in damping silence, while Rupert Gunning's song, of the truculent order dedicated to basses, and sung by him with a face that would have done credit to Othello, received an ovation that confirmed Captain Carteret in his contempt for country audiences. The performance raged to its close in a "Cake Walk," to the inspiring strains of "Razors a-flying through the air," and the curtain ...

— All on the Irish Shore - Irish Sketches • E. Somerville and Martin Ross

... risk his own liberty in bringing her on from Washington. After having arrived safely in New York, she found a home and kind friends in the family of the Rev. A.N. Freeman, and received quite an ovation characteristic of ...

— The Underground Railroad • William Still

... the daughter of Marshal de Breze became the amazon and almost the heroine. She held reviews, councils of war, negotiated, and issued orders. Scarcely had she reached Bordeaux, her entry into which was quite an ovation, than she besieged the Parliament chamber to procure the registration of her requests and protestations against the unjust detention of her husband. "She solicited the judges on their way out of court, representing to them with tears in her eyes the unhappy condition of all her oppressed ...

— Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Sutherland Menzies

... received a real ovation without even then coming to himself; but when they had some time quitted the town, he seemed suddenly to awake, and asked his companion if they ought not ...

— Life of St. Francis of Assisi • Paul Sabatier

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