Praise from grown-up holding a note (7)
I believe the answer is:
adulate
'praise' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'grown-up holding a note' is the wordplay.
'grown up' becomes 'adult' (I've seen this before).
'holding' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'note' becomes 'e' (musical note).
'adult' enclosing 'a' is 'adulat'.
'adulat'+'e'='ADULATE'
'from' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for adulate that I've seen before include "Flatter excessively" , "Praise excessively" , "Excessively admire" , "Worship" , "Flatter obsequiously" .)