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verb

Praise v. t. (past & past part. praised; pres. part. praising)

1.

To commend; to applaud; to express approbation of; to laud; applied to a person or his acts. "I praise well thy wit." "Let her own works praise her in the gates." "We praise not Hector, though his name, we know, Is great in arms; 't is hard to praise a foe."

2.

To extol in words or song; to magnify; to glorify on account of perfections or excellent works; to do honor to; to display the excellence of; applied especially to the Divine Being. "Praise ye him, all his angels; praise ye him, all his hosts!"

3.

To value; to appraise. (Obs.)

Synonyms: To commend; laud; eulogize; celebrate; glorify; magnify. To Praise, Applaud, Extol. To praise is to set at high price; to applaud is to greet with clapping; to extol is to bear aloft, to exalt. We may praise in the exercise of calm judgment; we usually applaud from impulse, and on account of some specific act; we extol under the influence of high admiration, and usually in strong, if not extravagant, language.

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"Praising" Quotes from Famous Books

... I was praising Jill's buttered toast, for I knew she prided herself on this delicacy, and she had just cut herself a thick wedge of the seed-cake, which she was discussing with a school-girl's appetite, when I heard Uncle Brian's voice calling for Ursula rather loudly: so I ran to the head ...

— Uncle Max • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... "Still praising Spike, my good Jack," cried the mate, a little provoked at this pertinacity in the deputy-steward, in sticking to his ship and his shipmate. "I should have thought that you had sailed with him long enough to have found him out, and to wish never ...

— Jack Tier or The Florida Reef • James Fenimore Cooper

... from the King; all agog (BIEN COIFFE) about the Princess. I think I may still finish the week here. [26th, did arrive in Berlin: Preuss (in OEuvres, xxvii. part 3d, p. 58 n).] When his first fire of approbation is spent, you might, praising her all the while, lead him to notice her faults. Mon Dieu, has he not already seen what an ill-assorted marriage comes to,—my Sister of Anspach and her Husband, who hate one another like the fire! He has a thousand vexations from it every day.... And ...

— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. IX. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle

... confederate at his elbow he might become formidable. Necker devised a plan by which his scheming was easily frustrated. The king appeared before the Assembly, without preliminaries, and delivered an unexpected statement of policy, adopting the entire work of the Revolution, as far as it had gone, and praising in particular the recent division of ...

— Lectures on the French Revolution • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

... that fear possesses no moral value. Whenever I hear that contention stated, my mind invariably swings back to a great story told by Sir Henry Hawkins in his Reminiscences. He is telling of his experiences under Mr. Justice Maule, and is praising the judicial perspicacity of that judge. In a certain murder case a boy of eight was called to give evidence, and counsel objected to so youthful a witness being heard. Mr. Justice Maule thought for a minute, and then beckoned the boy ...

— Mushrooms on the Moor • Frank Boreham

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