Definition of Praise

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Praise

To commend; to applaud; to express approbation of; to laud; -- applied to a person or his acts.

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.

To value; to appraise.

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

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.

The object, ground, or reason of praise.

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Praise Quotations

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
Mark Twain

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
John Wooden

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
Friedrich Nietzsche

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I will praise any man that will praise me.
William Shakespeare

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
William Shakespeare

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
Aristotle

Praise Translations

praise in Afrikaans is prys
praise in Danish is rose
praise in Dutch is loven, roemen, verheerlijken, prijzen
praise in German is Lob, anpreisen, Lob
praise in Italian is lode, elogiare
praise in Latin is laudatio, laus
praise in Portuguese is elogio
praise in Spanish is elogio, alabanza, alabar

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