Definition of "praise" []

• Expression of approval, commendation, or admiration. (noun)
• The extolling or exaltation of a deity, ruler, or hero. (noun)
• Archaic A reason for praise; merit. (noun)
• To express warm approbation of, commendation for, or admiration for. (verb-transitive)
• To extol or exalt; worship. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Both begin with the _praise_ of the Lord to whom all praise is due."
• "a thousand years since_: neither am I moved with certain courtly decencies, which I esteem it flattery to praise in presence; no, it is flattery to _praise in absence: that is_, when _either_ the virtue is absent, _or -- the occasion_ is absent, and so the praise is _not natural_, but _forced_, either in truth, _or -- in time_."
• "Faint praise is still praise from the Walking Dead."