praise

_praise_

Verb.

Pronunciation: preɪz.

Etymology: from Old French preisier (= to price, praise), and, this one, from Latin pretium (= price).

Third-person singular simple present: she/he praises.

Preterite tense, preterite participle: praised.

Present participle: praising.

Transitively: 1. (It is an obsolete acceptation) to assign a price to (something vendible); value, appraise.

2. To predicate of (someone or something) laudatorily; to manifest verbally approbation of; to speak the praise of; to tell one or more eulogistic attributes of.

Synonyms: to laud, extol, commend, eulogize, magnify.

Antonyms: to depreciate, blame, to reproach, reprove, censure, carp at, scold, chide, rebuke, reprimand, berate, taunt, twit, snub.

Translation: loar, in Spanish; lodare, in Italian; louer, in French.

The Mexican paintings however, which some have extravagantly praised, are depreciated by other writers.

James Elmes… Dictionary of the fine arts

He looked at the picture, praised it […], and congratulated the artist.

Charle Lester… The artists of America

I praised the propriety of his language, and was answered that I need not wonder, for he had learned it by grammar.

Samuel Johnson… The Western Isles of Scotland

He asked which was my house, and being told, praised it, as indeed it was one of the best in the place.

Robert Kerr… Voyages and Travels, Vol. 9

The battle of La Hogue I have heard praised as the best historic picture.

Charle Lester… The artists of America

[…] they don't know when to abuse him, and when to praise him.

Frances Burney… Diary and letters

I praised her cunt, said it was delicious, my eulogies delighted her so, that instead of ten minutes she stopped nearly an hour, stripped all but stockings, to let me see her exquisite form, and I fucked again her lubricious unwashed channel.

Walter… My secret life

-) Reflexively:

[…] we have praised ourselves with so little decency, and have monopolized with so little reserve every attribute of freedom, heroism, intelligence, […] that we cannot be surprised if other countries should be somewhat reluctant to concede, what we so indecorously demand.

Benjamin Silliman… A journal of travels in England…

-) With the preposition for + noun or gerund by which the praiseworthy quality or action is designated:

If any one was praised for beauty, Clara was immediately pronounced much prettier.

Charles Lever… The Confessions…

In my childhood I was praised for the readiness with which I could multiply and divide, by memory alone, two sums of several figures.

Edward Gibbon… Memoirs...

He is not so much praised for correctness of design in his figures, as for his skill in the ornamental parts, as flowers, fruits, and animals.

Thomas Roscoe… The History of Painting in Italy

[…] he chose rather to be laughed at than praised for his achievement.

Walter Scott… Quentin Durward

I have heard the Germans praised for their sincerity and honesty.

William Howells… A Fearful Responsibility…

She was praised for having been the most ingenious worker in wool.

The Dublin Review, vol. 4

-) The object of the verb may be the quality, instead of the person:

The whole party were dressed in their gayest attire, and looked remarkably neat and comfortable. We talked to them a moment in bad Portuguese, praised the beauty of the child, patted it on the cheek.

John Dix… A winter in madeira

Those who went to Tututepec, near the South Sea, brought back samples of gold, and praised the pleasantness of the country.

Robert Kerr… Voyages and Travels

[…] instead of apologizing for the defects, he commenced praising the beauties of the mansion-house.

J. Fenimore Cooper… The Pioneers

"You strip," said she laughing. — In a minute I was naked. — "Oh! what smooth flesh," and she began to kiss my breasts, and feel my back, I kissing hers; and so we stood naked, kissing each other's flesh, and looking and praising each other's beauties.

Walter… My secret life

Other English words derived from Latin pretium: depreciate, depreciant, depreciated, depreciating, depreciatingly, depreciation, depreciative, depreciator, depreciatory, precious, price, preciosity, preciously, preciousness, price (noun, verb), priceable, priceableness, priced, priceless, pricelessly, pricelessness, pricer, pricey, pricing, prize (reward), prize (to value), prized, prizeless, prizeman, prizewoman, prize-money, prizing, appreciate, appreciated, appreciating, appreciatingly, appreciation, appreciative, appreciatively, appreciativeness, appreciator, appreciatorily, appreciatory, appreciably, appreciable, appraisable, appraisal, appraise, appraised, appraisee, appraisement, appraiser, appraising, appraisingly, appraisive, appraisively, unprized, unprizable, praised, praise (noun), praisable, praisableness, praisably, praiseful, praisefully, praisefulness, praiseless, praiser, praiseworthily, praiseworthiness, praiseworthy, praising, praisingly, unpraised, unpraiseful, unpraiseworthy, unpraisable, unpraise.