Citations:illaudatory
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English citations of illaudatory
- 1840, a traveller, Notes Upon Canada and the United States[1], 2nd edition, Toronto: Rogers and Thompson, Commercial Herald Office, page 43:
- Granted—that if a man would discover the unamiableness of his species, let him take boarders; but this, although illaudatory to them, ought not to disturb him, at least, so long as the object is only of a secondary consideration.
- 1845, John Wilson, Specimens of the British Critics[2], Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, page 229:
- Tyrwhitt laid the basis, in his edition of the Canterbury Tales—the only work of the ancestral poet that can yet fairly be said to have found an editor—by a text, oif which the admirable diligence, fidelity, skill, and sound discretion, wrung energetic and unqualified praise from the illaudatory pen of Ritson.
- 1849–1850, Dr. Kennedy Bailie, “Memoir on the Medallion Anaglyphs of the University of Dublin”, in The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy[3], volume 22, Dublin: M. H. Gill, page 201:
- Truth sanctioned this appellation, which, I confess, appeared to me rather strange and illaudatory in a composition intended as eulogistic of Pátmos : but its author could not disguise facts, with the scene of drought and barrenness present to his view, which exist in my own recollection ; suggesting the spot in the Roman times as adapted to the purposes of a penal settlement, and in modern, presenting little more than a single óasis to redeem it from the imputation of absolute sterility.