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1840, a traveller, Notes Upon Canada and the United States, 2nd edition, Toronto: Rogers and Thompson, Commercial Herald Office, page 43:Granted—that if a man would discover the unamiableness of his species, let him take boarders; but this, although illaudatory to them, ought not to disturb him, at least, so long as the object is only of a secondary consideration.
1845, John Wilson, Specimens of the British Critics, Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, page 229:Tyrwhitt laid the basis, in his edition of the Canterbury Tales—the only work of the ancestral poet that can yet fairly be said to have found an editor—by a text, oif which the admirable diligence, fidelity, skill, and sound discretion, wrung energetic and unqualified praise from the illaudatory pen of Ritson.
1849–1850, Dr. Kennedy Bailie, “Memoir on the Medallion Anaglyphs of the University of Dublin”, in The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 22, Dublin: M. H. Gill, page 201:Truth sanctioned this appellation, which, I confess, appeared to me rather strange and illaudatory in a composition intended as eulogistic of Pátmos : but its author could not disguise facts, with the scene of drought and barrenness present to his view, which exist in my own recollection ; suggesting the spot in the Roman times as adapted to the purposes of a penal settlement, and in modern, presenting little more than a single óasis to redeem it from the imputation of absolute sterility.