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TRIBUTE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence
Example:
every store in the neighborhood had to pay him protection
Synonyms:
protection; tribute
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("tribute" is a kind of...):
extortion (the felonious act of extorting money (as by threats of violence))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Payment by one nation for protection by another
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("tribute" is a kind of...):
defrayal; defrayment; payment (the act of paying money)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Something given or done as an expression of esteem
Synonyms:
testimonial; tribute
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("tribute" is a kind of...):
approval; commendation (a message expressing a favorable opinion)
Context examples:
This was Sir Walter and Elizabeth's share of interest in the letter; when Mrs Clay had paid her tribute of more decent attention, in an enquiry after Mrs Charles Musgrove, and her fine little boys, Anne was at liberty.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
In comparing her recollection of Pemberley with the minute description which Wickham could give, and in bestowing her tribute of praise on the character of its late possessor, she was delighting both him and herself.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Having described the genesis of their journey, and paid a handsome tribute to his friend Professor Challenger, coupled with an apology for the incredulity with which his assertions, now fully vindicated, had been received, he gave the actual course of their journey, carefully withholding such information as would aid the public in any attempt to locate this remarkable plateau.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When they had paid their tribute of politeness by curtsying to the lady of the house, they were permitted to mingle in the crowd, and take their share of the heat and inconvenience, to which their arrival must necessarily add.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Do not be overpowered by such a little tribute of admiration.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Finally, I have alluded to Mr. Thackeray, because to him—if he will accept the tribute of a total stranger—I have dedicated this second edition of "JANE EYRE."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
If any town should engage in rebellion or mutiny, fall into violent factions, or refuse to pay the usual tribute, the king has two methods of reducing them to obedience.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
In a quiet way, very little attended to, she paid her tribute of admiration to Miss Crawford's beauty; but as she still continued to think Mr. Crawford very plain, in spite of her two cousins having repeatedly proved the contrary, she never mentioned him.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Mr. Tilney and his companion, who continued, though slowly, to approach, were immediately preceded by a lady, an acquaintance of Mrs. Thorpe; and this lady stopping to speak to her, they, as belonging to her, stopped likewise, and Catherine, catching Mr. Tilney's eye, instantly received from him the smiling tribute of recognition.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Elizabeth was sad and desponding; she no longer took delight in her ordinary occupations; all pleasure seemed to her sacrilege toward the dead; eternal woe and tears she then thought was the just tribute she should pay to innocence so blasted and destroyed.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
