Crossword clues for extolling
extolling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Extol \Ex*tol"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extolled; p. pr. & vb. n. Extolling.] [L. extollere; ex out + tollere to lift, take up, or raise: cf. OF. extoller. See Tollerate, and cf. Flate.]
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To place on high; to lift up; to elevate. [Obs.]
Who extolled you in the half-crown boxes, Where you might sit and muster all the beauties.
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To elevate by praise; to eulogize; to praise; to magnify; as, to extol virtue; to extol an act or a person.
Wherein have I so deserved of you, That you extol me thus?
--Shak.Syn: To praise; applaud; commend; magnify; celebrate; laud; glorify. See Praise.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of extoll English)
WordNet
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Usage examples of "extolling".
On an evening with the Cranches, when a visiting Englishman began extolling the English sense of justice, Adams exploded, taking everyone by surprise, and Adams as much as any.
He made events out of small incidents, no matter that all were aimed at extolling the islands, subtly deprecating mainland ways.
The low-pitched conversation between two men on his left turned out to be the innocuous boast ing of one about the breeding lines of the splay-footed run ners he was hoping to barter profitably while the other man kept extolling the virtues of the currently favored strain.
It had been praised in poetry by Pope, acclaimed by Rousseau, and was the work, in part, of the most famous English landscape gardener of the day, Lancelot Brown, “Capability” Brown, as he was known, for his habit of extolling to clients the “capabilities” of their property.
So an appeal to Adams's self-regard, by extolling his integrity to the point of implying that Franklin and Arthur Lee had none, was quite in the Lovell mode.
Brown, as he was known, for his habit of extolling to clients the "capabilities" of their property.
I would not have spent all of chapter 2 extolling it if I thought that.
Michael the Archangel sat on a high backed straw-seated chair off to one side, leafing through a papyrus travel brochure extolling the pleasures of upper Egypt.
Wouldn't that make me a laughingstock—if I ordered one of my own demons to stop putting on a play extolling Hellish activities!