applaud to the echo

present singular third person applauds to the echo · participle present applauding to the echo · participle past applauded to the echo · past applauded to the echo

1. To give loud and continuous applause.

   I would applaud thee to the very echo, / That should applaud again.

   c. 1606, Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 5, scene 3

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   At first the public applauded her to the echo ; but soon her hearers began to weary of the reiterated extravagances of her style of singing, and the enthusiasm at length died out.

   1863, Ellen Creathorne Clayton, Queens of Song: Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Celebrated Female Vocalists who Have Appeared on the Lyric Stage, from the Earliest Days of Opera to the Present Time. To which is Added a Chronological List of All the Operas that Have Been Performed in Europe, page 318

   After the scene of Hippolyte's declaration, though la Berma well knew the terrible night to which she was returning, her admirers applauded her to the echo and declared her more beautiful than ever.

   1922, Marcel Proust, translated by C K Scott-Moncrieff, Remembrance of Things Past, Wordsworth Editions, →ISBN, page 1245

   Synonyms: cheer to the echo