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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
praise
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a critic praises sth
▪ The play was highly praised by critics and the public.
damn (sb/sth) with faint praise (=show that you think someone or something is not good by only praising them a little)
deserve credit/praise
▪ The team played really well and they deserve credit for it.
fulsome gratitude/praise/tribute etc
▪ The book contains a fulsome dedication to his wife.
praise God
▪ They came to the church to praise God.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
▪ Francis Beckett's highly praised biography is now available in paperback for the first time.
▪ She also realizes the attorney, whom she highly praised, worked for relatively low rates.
▪ Jonathon Miller directed performances of Eugene Onegin and Rigoletto which were highly praised by critics and public.
▪ The painting of St Basil's Cathedral was highly praised.
▪ Sweetmeats, cakes or puddings follow ... the variety has been highly praised by our guests over the last five years.
widely
▪ It was widely praised, even in Nature, which might have been sceptical.
▪ The speech was widely praised for its brevity.
▪ Though widely praised when it began, the Baldrige Award has attracted increasing criticism-particularly from within the quality advocacy community.
▪ President Bush is being widely praised for his deft handling of the hostage crisis.
■ NOUN
courage
▪ He would not have gone to Munich himself, he said, but he praised Chamberlain's courage for acting differently.
▪ He lamented their losses, praised their courage, and attributed their lack of success to accidental causes.
sky
▪ Yet now he was praising her to the skies.
work
▪ We may praise the detailed work and massing of information, but we may sleep.
▪ What have I been praised for at work?
▪ Equal praise: Cleveland County Council has been praised for its work in the equal opportunities field.
▪ His boss has praised his work on the estate, saying it shows the value of community policing.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be loud in your praise/opposition/support etc
▪ Nevertheless, both my master and Agrippa were loud in their praise of my martial prowess.
ecstatic review/praise/applause
▪ And another executioner earned the crowd's ecstatic applause when he beheaded two criminals with one blow!
▪ It received universally ecstatic reviews, and deservedly so.
▪ Now after ecstatic reviews it is playing to packed audiences in London.
▪ With Bley conducting and Paul Haines, the original librettist, as narrator, the opera was revived to ecstatic reviews.
high opinion/regard/praise etc
▪ He has the highest regard for his hamster-locating abilities.
▪ It was a display which earned high praise, not least from Coventry boss Bobby Gould.
▪ Perhaps surprisingly, the indications are that Offa continued to hold Canterbury in high regard.
▪ Surely the Buckleys have risen to higher station, or at least a higher opinion of themselves.
▪ This, however, is no indication that they have a particularly high opinion of the spiritual contribution of women.
▪ While I hold these scholars and practitioners in the highest regard, I have not relied exclusively on their work.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Fire chiefs praised a 10-year-old girl who saved her brother's life yesterday.
▪ His column was a regular and highly praised feature of the newspaper.
▪ Local people were praised for their calm response to the crisis.
▪ The new freeway plan has been praised by local business leaders.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Andrews' ballet designs, created over eight months of intensive work, were much praised when premiered in Birmingham in June.
▪ Being able to praise yourself will give you power and control over your own life.
▪ He praised the soldiers for overcoming adverse conditions, including less-than-gourmet food and less-than-plush accommodations.
▪ I felt sick when she praised the lead, knowing that I wasn't really coping.
▪ Izanarni praises Izanagi, and he returns with praises for her, though it worries him that the woman spoke first.
▪ The couple denied the allegations, and the court heard they were once praised by social services for their fostering work.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
faint
▪ At the product's launch, the company took time out to damn 3Com's boundary routing scheme with faint praise.
▪ With these words of faint praise, Maskelyne tactfully conceded a few major flaws in the lunar distance method.
▪ If that seems like faint praise, you should read the dozen most recent books on Paradise Lost.
full
▪ Prince Charles is Patron of the Trust and is full of praise for its activities to date.
▪ And they were full of praise.
▪ The Chairman is full of praise for my erudition.
▪ Sir Philip, himself, is likewise full of praise for your son, for whom he has the highest regard.
▪ Guests were full of praise for the culinary delights, and the branch was able to add £527 to its funds.
▪ Even the mechanics had been full of praise.
▪ She introduced herself fully, giving her full praise names.
fulsome
▪ Colin was fulsome in his praise of the role of finance directors in delivering a near impossible set of financial reforms.
great
▪ The tea provided for them by the Dean came in for a great deal of praise.
▪ Beccaria's ideas had been fated to win great praise but achieve less by way of practical influence in the running of penal systems.
▪ But the greatest praise perhaps came from William Wordsworth, who wrote the epitaph for Green's gravestone.
high
▪ Down to nine men, our lads deserve the highest praise for a 3-3 draw.
▪ Those who did so received high praise: He asked me to be a team leader.
▪ Yet whatever Benn's shortcomings, he deserves high praise for the service he has performed for recent political history.
▪ Mintzberg deserves high praise for his perceptiveness in issuing these caveats about the widespread enthusiasm for the adhocracy arrangement.
▪ The firm which had fire-proofed the building got high praise for the containment of the blaze.
▪ Although his verbal craftsmanship deserves high praise, we do wonder about his motivation.
▪ The highest praise can be given to works which match up and accord with these.
▪ William Podolsky, an architect who serves on the neighborhood committee, has high praise for the process.
lavish
▪ The instrument more than justifies your lavish praise and I am delighted with it in every respect.
▪ Uncle Shim laid lavish praise on my parents for the quality of the food, the effort in preparation.
special
▪ How often is a child singled out for special praise at governors' meetings?
▪ I'd be hard pushed to single out any particular track for special praise.
■ VERB
deserve
▪ They deserve praise, at any rate, for what they have not done.
▪ Mintzberg deserves high praise for his perceptiveness in issuing these caveats about the widespread enthusiasm for the adhocracy arrangement.
▪ Down to nine men, our lads deserve the highest praise for a 3-3 draw.
▪ Although his verbal craftsmanship deserves high praise, we do wonder about his motivation.
▪ Yet whatever Benn's shortcomings, he deserves high praise for the service he has performed for recent political history.
▪ And Columbia records deserves praise for state-of-the- art packaging.
▪ Mr Rifkind will deserve warm praise if he can succeed where several incumbents have failed.
▪ But, in one respect at least, our glorious leader deserves rich praise.
draw
▪ The overall standard of all the entries in the competition drew praise from the judges.
▪ One example is Shirli-Ann Siddall, who has drawn much praise recently.
earn
▪ It was a display which earned high praise, not least from Coventry boss Bobby Gould.
▪ Conversely, if a person expects that meeting deadlines will not earn praise, he or she may not be as motivated.
▪ Verio also earned praise for growing through its 4,000 reseller partners around the world.
▪ In college, he continued to excel, earning praise in the classroom almost as often as on the basketball court.
give
▪ Some critics, however, still gave praise where praise was due.
▪ And in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy, for giving praise unto the Lord.
▪ So many detrimental things are written and said about our youth that for once let us give praise where it is due.
▪ Meese agreed, after giving Bork high praise.
▪ The manager was giving praise but in return was met with disappointment and a long face.
▪ The students completed their work in class with the teacher next to them, giving ample praise and encouragement.
▪ I bought the DesignaKnit 4 Professional some months back and I feel I have to give it nothing but praise.
▪ Enjoying rewards Following on from giving yourself praise is the idea of giving yourself credit and rewards.
heap
▪ He was so incredibly gracious in defeat, heaping praise upon Olson and the Arizona players.
offer
▪ And, of course, they were almost exclusively from fans offering their praise and support.
▪ Coach Flip Saunders had completed his postgame news conference, offering praise all around.
receive
▪ The Scribes loved to receive the praise of ordinary people.
▪ Mr Schwartz has received considerable praise in recent years for his acumen in building Loral through a series of strategic acquisitions.
▪ In fact we received a lot of praise.
sing
▪ They sang Communist songs of praise the whole day long and cursed the reactionaries with bloody curses.
singled
▪ How often is a child singled out for special praise at governors' meetings?
▪ The restoration was singled out for praise in 1986 when it was highly commended by the Association of Railway Preservation Societies.
win
▪ The crackdown has won wide praise.
▪ But while Mr Mitterrand won praise and respect abroad, he often drew sharp criticism at home, especially from conservative commentators.
▪ While Amis sold books, Powell won praise.
▪ Clinton won praise both for his education proposals and for the national dialogue on race that he has undertaken.
▪ Thanks to deft chairmanship and bluntness, he drew from it a respectable report that won praise for its forthrightness.
▪ Bagged it: An anti-litter campaign has won praise from the Tidy Britain Group.
▪ While his foreign policy was winning praise abroad, Gorbachev was coming under growing criticism at home.
write
▪ Even the exiled Bustamante wrote from Paris in praise of the president and the new administration.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be loud in your praise/opposition/support etc
▪ Nevertheless, both my master and Agrippa were loud in their praise of my martial prowess.
ecstatic review/praise/applause
▪ And another executioner earned the crowd's ecstatic applause when he beheaded two criminals with one blow!
▪ It received universally ecstatic reviews, and deservedly so.
▪ Now after ecstatic reviews it is playing to packed audiences in London.
▪ With Bley conducting and Paul Haines, the original librettist, as narrator, the opera was revived to ecstatic reviews.
heap praise/insults etc on sb
high opinion/regard/praise etc
▪ He has the highest regard for his hamster-locating abilities.
▪ It was a display which earned high praise, not least from Coventry boss Bobby Gould.
▪ Perhaps surprisingly, the indications are that Offa continued to hold Canterbury in high regard.
▪ Surely the Buckleys have risen to higher station, or at least a higher opinion of themselves.
▪ This, however, is no indication that they have a particularly high opinion of the spiritual contribution of women.
▪ While I hold these scholars and practitioners in the highest regard, I have not relied exclusively on their work.
sing sb's praises
▪ Craig adored Jane and would sing her praises to anyone who would listen.
▪ Diane really admires you - she's always singing your praises.
▪ Feminists have long sung the praises of writers such as Germaine Greer and Simone de Beauvoir.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She said you have talent, and that's high praise coming from a best-selling author like her.
▪ The charity has earned widespread praise for its work.
▪ The police deserve a lot of praise for the way they handled the situation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Douglas came in for much praise.
▪ In subtle ways, he seeks praise and affirmation from those he knows it's safe to trust.
▪ It turns out, however, the praise coming Bayless' way is well deserved.
▪ Mintzberg deserves high praise for his perceptiveness in issuing these caveats about the widespread enthusiasm for the adhocracy arrangement.
▪ Some critics, however, still gave praise where praise was due.
▪ The beauty or grandeur of nature may inspire praise.
▪ The power of praise is often overlooked.
▪ We allow our feelings to flow out towards him in adoration, confession, thanksgiving and praise.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Praise

Praise \Praise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Praised; p. pr. & vb. n. Praising.] [OE. preisen, OF. preisier, prisier, F. priser, L. pretiare to prize, fr. pretium price. See Price, n., and cf. Appreciate, Praise, n., Prize, v.]

  1. To commend; to applaud; to express approbation of; to laud; -- applied to a person or his acts. ``I praise well thy wit.''
    --Chaucer.

    Let her own works praise her in the gates.
    --Prov. xxxi. 31.

    We praise not Hector, though his name, we know, Is great in arms; 't is hard to praise a foe.
    --Dryden.

  2. To extol in words or song; to magnify; to glorify on account of perfections or excellent works; to do honor to; to display the excellence of; -- applied especially to the Divine Being.

    Praise ye him, all his angels; praise ye him, all his hosts!
    --Ps. cxlviii. 2.

  3. To value; to appraise. [Obs.]
    --Piers Plowman.

    Syn: To commend; laud; eulogize; celebrate; glorify; magnify.

    Usage: To Praise, Applaud, Extol. To praise is to set at high price; to applaud is to greet with clapping; to extol is to bear aloft, to exalt. We may praise in the exercise of calm judgment; we usually applaud from impulse, and on account of some specific act; we extol under the influence of high admiration, and usually in strong, if not extravagant, language.

Praise

Praise \Praise\, n. [OE. preis, OF. preis price, worth, value, estimation. See Praise, v., Price.]

  1. Commendation for worth; approval expressed; honor rendered because of excellence or worth; laudation; approbation.

    There are men who always confound the praise of goodness with the practice.
    --Rambler.

    Note: Praise may be expressed by an individual, and thus differs from fame, renown, and celebrity, which are always the expression of the approbation of numbers, or public commendation.

  2. Especially, the joyful tribute of gratitude or homage rendered to the Divine Being; the act of glorifying or extolling the Creator; worship, particularly worship by song, distinction from prayer and other acts of worship; as, a service of praise.

  3. The object, ground, or reason of praise.

    He is thy praise, and he is thy God.
    --Deut. x.??.

    Syn: Encomium; honor; eulogy; panegyric; plaudit; applause; acclaim; eclat; commendation; laudation.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
praise

c.1300, "to laud, commend, flatter," from Old French preisier, variant of prisier "to praise, value," from Late Latin preciare, earlier pretiare (see price (n.)). Replaced Old English lof, hreþ.\n

\nSpecifically with God as an object from late 14c. Related: Praised; praising. Now a verb in most Germanic languages (German preis, Danish pris, etc.), but only in English is it differentiated in form from cognate price.

praise

early 14c., not common until 16c., from praise (v.).

Wiktionary
praise

n. 1 commendation; favourable representation in words 2 worship vb. To give praise to.

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WordNet
praise

  1. n. an expression of approval and commendation; "he always appreciated praise for his work" [syn: congratulations, kudos]

  2. offering words of homage as an act of worship; "they sang a hymn of praise to God"

  3. v. express approval of; "The parents praised their children for their academic performance" [ant: knock]

Wikipedia
Praise (band)

Praise were an English new-age music group formed in London in 1991, comprising Geoff MacCormack, Simon Goldenberg and Miriam Stockley. The group was considered to be foundational in the genre of ethnic electronica.

Praise released one self-titled album in 1991, which was produced, engineered and mixed by Richard James Burgess. Praise combined European dance beats with a variety of traditional world samples and styles along with Miriam Stockley's vocals, in a manner that was continued by artists such as Enigma, Deep Forest and Adiemus (which also featured Stockley's vocals). The tracks segue using soundscape elements, and the album was one of the few ever to be mixed using Qsound which provided virtual surround sound out of a pair of stereo speakers. MacCormack and Goldenberg arranged and performed many of the instrumental parts, the latter providing the necessary computer programming. Stockley arranged and performed the lead and many backing vocals. All three have writing credits for Praise, and were supplemented by other specialised world performers.

"Only You", the second track from Praise, was used for a commercial for the Fiat Tempra. It was subsequently remixed by producers Andreas Georgiou ( cousin of George Michael) and Peter Lorrimer, and went on to become a hit single, peaking at #4 in the UK Singles Chart, and featured in new-age compilation albums. Stockley's vocals for this track were sampled extensively in the 2000 dance track, "Fiji" by Atlantis, which peaked at #52 in the UK chart. In the same year, they released the single "Dream On".

Praise disbanded some time after Praise was released; Stockley went on to perform lead vocals on Karl Jenkins's Adiemus albums.

Praise (Sevendust song)

"Praise" is the first single from Sevendust's 2001 release Animosity. The song also appears on their Best of (Chapter One 1997-2004) album. The songs music video was shot in Orlando, Florida, and directed by "Glen Bennett". "Praise" peaked at number 15 on the Mainstream Rock chart and number 23 on the Modern Rock chart.

Praise (film)

Praise is a 1998 Australian film directed by John Curran.

Praise (Marvin Gaye song)

"Praise" is a 1981 gospel-inspired funk number released by American soul singer Marvin Gaye. The song, written by Gaye, is a tribute to not only his church upbringing but also to the sound of then-label mate Stevie Wonder, who is given a shout out on the song by Gaye.

The song, equipped with horns, a propulsive drum beat, and Gaye's multi-layered vocals, returned Gaye to the top forty of Billboard's Hot Soul Singles chart, where it peaked at number 18 on that chart while reaching #101 on Billboard's Bubbling Under the Hot 100. "Praise" was the first release off Gaye's controversial recording, In Our Lifetime.

The song was originally recorded in 1979 under the title "A Lover's Plea" from the singer's shelved Love Man album.

Praise (Sirius XM)

Kirk Franklin's Praise (formerly Praise) is a Gospel music radio station honoring Kirk Franklin on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 64 (previously 68), XM Satellite Radio channel 64 (previously 33) and DISH Network channel 6064, until Sirius XM's Spa took the spot as part of the May 4 channel lineup. By June 2008, Praise was added to Sirius Canada for the first time. Until February 9, 2010, it was on DirecTV channel 827, but all of Sirius XM programming was dropped in favor of SonicTap. As of April 2009 the channel has a new logo consisting of "praise" in now gray letters.

Praise will soar through your day enjoying today's divinely inspired gospel music from artists including Kirk Franklin, Yolanda Adams, BeBe & CeCe Winans. We've got with the power to make you sing, clap and shout! Every Tuesday at 1 pm ET, its "Tuesday Trivia". Host Meta Washington guides listeners through biblical questions. Other DJ's on the channel are Gina Rodgers and Fred Mills, who came over from Sirius.

Praise (disambiguation)

Praise is the act of expressing approval or thanks.

It may also refer to:

Praise

Praise refers to positive evaluations made by a person of another's products, performances, or attributes, where the evaluator presumes the validity of the standards on which the evaluation is based. The influence of praise on an individual can depend on many factors, including the context, the meanings the praise may convey, and the characteristics and interpretations of the recipient. Praise is distinct from acknowledgement or feedback, which are more neutral forms of recognition, and encouragement, which is more future oriented. In addition, while praise may share some predictive relationships (both positive and negative) with tangible rewards, praise tends to be less salient and expected, conveys more information about competence, and is typically given more immediately after the desired behavior.

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Usage examples of "praise".

Clement, that my lord is anhungered of the praise of the folks, and is not like to abide in a mere merchant-town till the mould grow on his back.

Hutchinson has little leisure for much praise of the natural beauty of sky and landscape, but now and then in her work there appears an abiding sense of the pleasantness of the rural world--in her day an implicit feeling rather than an explicit.

Not even a droplet of all thine endless love can I aspire to fathom, nor can I adequately praise and tell of even the most trifling out of all the events of thy precious life.

Year 551, we offer up praises to God, His Son and the Holy Spirit for the success of the enterprise, and admonish all loyal subjects within the bounds of the Empire to join with us in this celebration, for surely we are delivered for the purpose of Christian vindication throughout the world.

Upon the Protestant dissenters of England he poured loud and eloquent praise when he was agitating for Roman Catholic emancipation, as the English dissenters gave an ostentatious support to that movement.

Lord Airlie deserves all praise for his unconventional use of his men, and for the gallantry with which he threw both himself and them into the most critical corner of the fight.

Katie Oats and Richard Ancho were praised as role models of the Paranormal Investigation Division.

Therefore to you henceforth belong These Southern asphodels of song, Less MY creations than your own, What praise they win are yours alone.

The ignorant Bohemians are astonished when I tell them that I regard the letter as redounding to my glory, and that if their ears were not quite so long their blame would be turned into praise.

Evidently, a bedel, or possibly one of the Keepers of the Faith, had already completed the praise.

But this solitary otherworldling was attired all in black, as a bedel might dress on Holy days devoted to praise.

The moment she had gone her father and mother began to praise their daughter.

Therese, seeing that he was posing as master of the field, and that his manners disgusted me, began to snub him, much to his displeasure, and after sneering at the poorness of the dishes, and praising the wine which he had supplied, he went out leaving us to finish our dessert by ourselves.

They proceeded to sit down and I began to take off their shoes, praising the beauty of their legs, and pretending for the present not to want to go farther than the knee.

I felt that I had taken sufficient vengeance, and began to examine her drawings, to praise them in detail, and to congratulate her on her talents.