applauding

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of applaud

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)applause

   “August 3, 1852, Rufus Choate, Address on Kossuth and Non-Intervention The tribute of tears and applaudings; the tribute of sympathy and of thoughts too deep for applaudings — too deep for tears, have attested his sway.”