Definition of Overpraises

1. Verb. (third-person singular of overpraise) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overpraises

1. overpraise [v] - See also: overpraise

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overpraises

overpour
overpoured
overpouring
overpours
overpower
overpowered
overpowerer
overpowerers
overpowerest
overpowereth
overpowering
overpoweringly
overpowers
overpraise
overpraised
overpraises (current term)
overpraising
overprecious
overprecise
overpredict
overpredicted
overpredicting
overpredicts
overpreparation
overprepare
overprepared
overprepares
overpreparing
overprescribe
overprescribed

Literary usage of Overpraises

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1880)
"Dr. Lindsay overpraises our pets. The need of the hour is a work on the stupidity of animals, showing how little they know or are organized for knowing ..."

2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"He overpraises many things. The old residence of the Gwalior princes he describes as " a magic palace entirely encrusted with precious stones. ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"He perhaps overpraises Mr. "Willi*, and under-estimates Byrant, but in his review of the latter he does full justice to Wordsworth. ..."

4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1896)
"Scott, who was a kindred spirit, bestows on her works what seems exaggerated praise—as indeed he overpraises others of his feminine contemporaries, ..."

5. The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly (1894)
""Mrs. Saltram," I explained, "undervalues him where he is strongest, so that, to make up for it perhaps, she overpraises him where he's weak. ..."

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