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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
praise
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Examples
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“O Shaykh245 of the Arabs, I will go with thee and buy of thee this girl whom thou praisest so highly for wit and manners and beauty and loveliness; and I will pay thee her price but it must be upon conditions which if thou accept, I will give thee ready money, and if thou accept not I will return her to thee.”
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When the magician retaliates by saying that the spiritually conscientious one could have understood little of his song, the latter replies: “Thou praisest me in that thou separatest me from thyself.”
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Passing over that foremost of bowmen -- that excellent of kings, Rukmin of great energy, why praisest thou Kesava?
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Passing over that foremost of bowmen -- that excellent of kings, Rukmin of great energy, why praisest thou Kesava?
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Sabha Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Since thou praisest my son thus (for his skill in battle), he did not deserve such a death.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Bhima said, 'It is well that thou art handsome, and it is well thou praisest thyself.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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'Let our foes, O Bhishma, be endued with that prowess which this Kesava hath, whom thou like a professional chanter of hymns praisest, rising repeatedly from thy seat.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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When Kesava himself is here, praisest thou the son of Drona, a warrior that does not come up to even a sixteenth part of thyself, O Dhanajaya, confessing thy own faults, why dost thou not feel shame?
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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If thou praisest God and singest not, thou utterest no hymn, if thou singest and praisest not God but another thing, thou utterest no hymn.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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If thou dost not account her such as thou praisest her, to what end wouldst thou prove her?
The Fourth Book. VI. Wherein Is Rehearsed the History of the Curious-Impertinent 1909
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