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Praise   /preɪz/   Listen
noun
Praise  n.  
1.
Commendation for worth; approval expressed; honor rendered because of excellence or worth; laudation; approbation. "There are men who always confound the praise of goodness with the practice." Note: Praise may be expressed by an individual, and thus differs from fame, renown, and celebrity, which are always the expression of the approbation of numbers, or public commendation.
2.
Especially, the joyful tribute of gratitude or homage rendered to the Divine Being; the act of glorifying or extolling the Creator; worship, particularly worship by song, distinction from prayer and other acts of worship; as, a service of praise.
3.
The object, ground, or reason of praise. "He is thy praise, and he is thy God."
Synonyms: Encomium; honor; eulogy; panegyric; plaudit; applause; acclaim; eclat; commendation; laudation.


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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"Praise" Quotes from Famous Books



... back (anan) the Northern peoples, therefore the dog-headed ape of Thoth came into being. Finally Ra told Thoth that he would take his place in the sight of all those who were wont to worship Ra, and that all should praise him as God. Thus the abdication of Ra ...
— Legends Of The Gods - The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations • E. A. Wallis Budge
... flattery might not be overlooked by a poet who aspired to royal favor. So while the January pastoral tells of the unhappy love of Colin Clout (Spenser) for Rosalind, the springtime of April calls for a song in praise of Elizabeth: ...
— Outlines of English and American Literature • William J. Long
... smoke, if you are accustomed," persisted the cooing voice behind it. But Sam, to his praise be it spoken, refused to add anything to the discomforts of a summer day's ride across the mountains. His chivalry had its reward; for the lady thus favored, feeling constrained to make some return for such consideration, began to talk, in a vein ...
— The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems • Frances Fuller Victor
... Christ. For if thou drinkest of the cup which He drank of, with Him shalt thou reign and judge with justice those who have dealt unrighteously. Oh Erasmus, cleave to this that God Himself may be thy praise, even as it is written of David. For thou mayest, yea verily thou mayest overthrow Goliath. Because God stands by the Holy Christian Church, even as He only upholds the Roman Church, according to His godly will. May He help us to everlasting salvation, who is God, the Father, the ...
— Albert Durer • T. Sturge Moore
... benefactor,—what would be her feelings in favour of the happy individual who should be so fortunate as to awaken them? Then came the doubtful question, whether he might not be that happy man,—a question which fancy endeavoured to answer in the affirmative, by conjuring up all she had said in his praise, with the addition of a comment much more flattering than the text warranted. All that was commonplace—all that belonged to the everyday world—was melted away and obliterated in those dreams of imagination, which only remembered with advantage the ...
— Waverley • Sir Walter Scott


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