Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To praise greatly or extravagantly; puff.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To praise greatly or extravagantly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To praise greatly or extravagantly.

Etymologies

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be- +‎ praise

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Examples

  • See how they bepraise their patrons, the grand Whig nobility, who hope, by raising the cry of liberalism and by putting themselves at the head of the populace, to come into power shortly.

    Lavengro 2004

  • He is a great talker and very clever, for in his half-wits is more cunning than in the brains of most; and he shall so bepraise Gudruda's beauty that

    Eric Brighteyes Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Gladly will I bestir the deedy hands, everywhere behold where thou hast need of me; bepraise the rich pomp of thy splendour; pursue unwearied the lovely harmonies of thy skilled handicraft; gladly contemplate the thoughtful pace of thy mighty, radiant clock; explore the balance of the forces and the laws of the wondrous play of countless worlds and their seasons; but true to the

    Rampolli George MacDonald 1864

  • I have no patience with the cant of travellers, who so bepraise it.

    Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey Cottle, Joseph 1847

  • Blossoms would fret me with beauty; my heart has no time to bepraise them;

    Andromeda and Other Poems Charles Kingsley 1847

  • See how they bepraise their patrons, the grand Whig nobility, who hope, by raising the cry of liberalism and by putting themselves at the head of the populace, to come into power shortly.

    Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

  • See how they bepraise their patrons, the grand Whig nobility, who hope, by raising the cry of liberalism, and by putting themselves at the head of the populace, to come into power shortly.

    Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 George Henry Borrow 1842

  • See how they bepraise their patrons, the grand Whig nobility, who hope, by raising the cry of liberalism, and by putting themselves at the head of the populace, to come into power shortly.

    Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 2 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842

  • See how they bepraise their patrons, the grand Whig nobility, who hope, by raising the cry of liberalism, and by putting themselves at the head of the populace, to come into power shortly.

    Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

  • As, however, it may be supposed that he is one of those who delight to play the sycophant to kings and queens, to curry favour with Tories, and to bepraise

    The Romany Rye George Henry Borrow 1842

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