outpraise

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

out- +‎ praise

Verb[edit]

outpraise (third-person singular simple present outpraises, present participle outpraising, simple past and past participle outpraised)

  1. (transitive) To surpass in praising.
    • 1966, George Oppenheimer, The View from the Sixties: Memories of a Spent Life, page 88:
      Each sought to outpraise the other in a tourney of poets.