laudator

plural laudators

1. One who lauds.

   When he made all those wrong decisions in his business and private life, he expected me to be a sycophant, a laudator,or a yes-man.

   2012, Tuana Dowan, Thena: Fight for the Future, page 377

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   As in most speeches, exaggeration and embellishment were standard devices by which the laudator amplified his subject's virtues or vices.

   1992, Historia, page 293

   To the extent that he is visible at all, the poet fulfils the role of laudator, not commentator on or representative of a world view.

   2007, Hanna Boeke, The Value of Victory in Pindar's Odes, page 172