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Definition of Bepraise
1. v. t. To praise greatly or extravagantly.
Definition of Bepraise
1. Verb. (transitive) To praise greatly or extravagantly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bepraise
1. to lavish praise upon [v BEPRAISED, BEPRAISING, BEPRAISES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bepraise
Literary usage of Bepraise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson ... Captain by Thomas Hutchinson, Peter Orlando Hutchinson (1884)
"... it is strange that he should proclaim himself a Loyalist, and bepraise himself
with considerable satisfaction about it in his Preface. ..."
2. New Exegesis of Shakespeare: Interpretation of His Principal Characters and (1859)
"To conclude with an example of another of these finer features which has entirely
escaped the critics in the genius they so bepraise—though on wind ground ..."
3. Poems by Charles Kingsley (1856)
"Green leaves would fret me with beauty ; my heart has no time to bepraise them ;
Gray rock, bough, surge, ..."
4. Thesaurus of English words and phrases by Peter Mark Roget (1883)
"... keep in countenance, endorse, give credit, recommend ; mark with a white -mark, -
stone. commend, praise, laud, compliment, pay a tribute, bepraise; ..."
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