tributes

nountestimonial, praise

Word Origin & History

mid-14c., "tax paid to a ruler or master for security or protection," from Latin tributum "tribute," literally "a thing contributed or paid," noun use of tributus, neuter past participle of tribuere "to pay, assign, grant," also "allot among the tribes or to a tribe," from tribus (see tribe). Sense of "offering, gift, token" is first recorded 1580s.

Example Sentences for tributes

He received the gifts as tributes, from admirers, to a public character.

Year after year will increase it by tributes from now unpeopled solitudes.

My friend has been less fortunate in the tributes of affection she has received.

They are tributes to the sound practical sense of a vision in politics.

Some tributes came to us in these last days regarding our work.

In the province of Tayavas, in five villages 1,343 tributes.

On the coast of Manila, in twenty-eight villages, 4,250 tributes.

The vagrant Indians of Manila and its environs amount to 781 tributes.

In the province of Pampanga, in six villages, 3,650 tributes.

In the province of Pangasinan, in four villages, 899 tributes.

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