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Praise to the skies
Answer for the clue "Praise to the skies ", 7 letters:
adulate
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To flatter effusively
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adulate \Ad"u*late\, v. t. [L. adulatus, p. p. of adulari.] To flatter in a servile way. --Byron.
Usage examples of adulate.
He had none of that peace and goodwill towards men with which those of us who are not Mohammedans adulate the approach of the season.
How easy it is to flatter and adulate this man out of all his former opinions and his deepest principles, and how an expected advantage will make that other man forget now an old alliance and now a deep antipathy!
He was a mere lad, spoilt, adulated, pampered from his boyhood: the wine had got into his head, the intoxication of rage and hatred blinded his saner judgment.
Then, clasping his robe where his lapels would normally be and followed by his slave, he strode majestically across the square while the crowd parted and adulating figures shouted out praises and prostrated themselves as he passed.