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1. The act of lauding; praising; giving a high commendation.
2. An instance of lauding; tribute; encomium (a formal expression of high praise; a eulogy): "An encomium by the President greeted the returning military hero."

1. An act of washing or cleansing.
2. The process of lavage; ablution.
3. The work of cleansing (usually with soap and water).

1. Actions taken by a government to defeat an insurgency.
2. The act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined to cooperate or participate in a peaceful action.
3. The action of making people calm when they are angry or upset.

1. The act or process of publishing printed matter for the public.
2. An issue of printed material offered for sale or distribution to various people.
3. Communication of information to the public.
4. The act of publishing a book, periodical, map, piece of music, engraving, or the like.
5. The act of bringing before the public; an announcement to the people in general.

1. The act of improving by renewing and restoring.
2. The state of having something restored to its former good condition.

Harsh in inflicting the death penalty; such as, sanguination in laws that provide for the death penalty or cruel vengeance.

1. The rapid change of water into steam; especially, in a boiler.
2. The change of a solid or liquid to a state of vapor.
3. To destroy by, or as if by, converting something into vapor; such as, the bomb vaporized the building.

1. The establishment of the truth or correctness of something by investigation or evidence.
2. The evidence that proves something true or correct.
3. In law, an affidavit swearing to the accuracy of a pleading.

1. A stated or regular occupation; a calling.
2. A call to, or fitness for, a certain career; especially, a religious position.
3. The work or profession for which one has a sense of special fitness.
4. A strong feeling of suitability for a particular career or occupation.

An occupation is often referred to as a "calling", because it is "a call to follow a way of life". The notion that a disembodied "voice" is calling people to a way of life is the basis for the word vocation.

Vocation was borrowed from Middle French, or directly from Latin vocation-, vocatio, "a call" or "a summons"; from vocare, "to call", and is related to voc-, vox, "voice".

The original meaning of vocation in 1426 was "a call from God to follow a spiritual way of life", as in "the priestly vocation" or "the vocation of a nun".

The sense of one's ordinary occupation, or profession, is first recorded in English in 1553; perhaps influenced by that meaning which existed in Middle French.

1. An earnestly vehement or loud outcry or speaking up; especially, in protest.
2. An outspoken insistence; a clamorous talk.

1. The state or condition of being zonate.
2. Arrangement or distribution in zones.
3. Arrangement or formation in zones; a zonate structure.
4. In ecology, the distribution of organisms in biogeographic zones.