Verb (used with object), : to extol the beauty of Naples. From Dictionary.com.
Norm Rubenstein stated that it transcended genre in his extolment for the novel, and I think that's an apt appraisal. From Wordnik.com. [Rabid Reads: "Ouroboros" by Michael Kelly and Carol Weekes] Reference
Members of the GAP party made sure to repeatedly extend their "heartfelt acclaim", however; effusively and endlessly adding their exaggerated extolment. From Wordnik.com. [DUBIOUS, the WMD SUIT] Reference
When we, invincible within the impenetrable and unfaltering extolment of our own virtue, rain a blistering and concussive death upon 100,000 Iraqi men, women, and children who never ventured from their country and posed no threat to a single one of us. From Wordnik.com. [Randall Robinson: The Terrifying Spectre of Revenge] Reference
The music itself feels like it could be an extolment of the "day," but the words push the mood into a darker meditation on isolation - though not necessarily an autobiographical one. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
But, in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of great article, and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable is his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more. From Wordnik.com. [Hamlet] Reference
But, in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of great article; and his infusion of such dearth and rareness, as, to make true diction of him, his semblable is his mirror; and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more. From Wordnik.com. [Hamlet, Prince of Denmark] Reference
But, in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of great article; 25 and his infusion of such dearth and rareness, as, to make true diction of him, his semblable26 is his mirror; and who else would trace him, his umbrage, 27 nothing more. From Wordnik.com. [Act V. Scene II] Reference
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