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Definition of Bepraised
1. bepraise [v] - See also: bepraise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bepraised
Literary usage of Bepraised
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Idler in Italy by Marguerite Blessington (1839)
"though sung by Boileau, and bepraised by all his principal cotemporaries, is
seldom referred to by posterity, except in conjunction with the splendid ..."
2. The Early Life of Robert Southey, 1774-1803 by William Haller (1917)
"All other pens in the institution had been versifying for the occasion: "For
three whole days I heard an old Fur-gown Bepraised, that made a Duke a ..."
3. Second Latin Book by Frank Justus Miller (1902)
"... he must (ought, deserves to) bepraised. The English form is usually active:
remember that the Latin is passive. The agent is regularly dative ..."
4. A Century of English Fox-hunting by George Frederick Underhill (1900)
"FURTHER BIOGRAPHIES IN A NUTSHELL IT has been said that to extol a reputation
already bepraised is a wasteful and ridiculous excess. ..."
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