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- Ovation
- n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser “triumph.” In modern English the word is improperly used to signify any loose and spontaneous expression of popular homage to the hero of the hour and place.
- “I had an ovation!” the actor man said, But I thought it uncommonly queer, That people and critics by him had been led By the ear.
- The Latin lexicon makes his absurd Assertion as plain as a peg; In “ovum” we find the true root of the word. It means egg.
- Dudley Spink