When the Germans at Valparaiso acclaimed him a naval hero, he shook his head.
On the death of Alaric his followers acclaimed his brother-in-law Ataulphus as king.
In a brief period he was the acclaimed.
Not only did his contemporaries, carried away by their passions, talk in this way, but posterity and history have acclaimed Napoleon as grand, while Kutuzov is described by foreigners as a crafty, dissolute, weak old courtier, and by Russians as something indefinite--a sort of puppet useful only because he had a Russian name.
Stephen was defeated and captured at Lincoln (1141); the empress was acclaimed lady or queen of England (she used both titles indifferently) and crowned at London.
