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▪ I. overpraise, n.|ˈəʊvəˈpreɪz|
[over- 29 b.]
Excessive praise; praise beyond what is deserved.
1694Dryden Love Triumphant i. i, This over-praise You give his worth, in any other mouth, Were villainy to me. 1875Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims i. 58 Our overpraise and idealization of famous masters.
▪ II. overpraise, v.|ˌəʊvəˈpreɪz|
[over- 27.]
trans. To praise excessively; to praise more than one deserves.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 339 It may wel be þat Arthur is ofte overpreysed. 1635A. Stafford Fem. Glory (1860) Ep. Ded. 60 As we cannot over-worship the True Deity, so wee cannot over-praise a true Piety. 1733Pope Let. to Swift Wks. 1751 IX. 250, I like much better to be abused and half-starved, than to be so over-praised and over-fed. 1858J. B. Norton Topics 116 The Company's petition..appears to me to have been singularly over-rated and over-praised.
So ˈoverˈpraised ppl. a.; ˈoverˈpraising vbl. n.
a1225Ancr. R. 86 He hit heueð to heie up mid ouer⁓preisunge & herunge. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 615 Serpent, thy overpraising leaves in doubt The vertue of that Fruit, in thee first prov'd. 1826Syd. Smith Wks. (1859) II. 106/2 A very great blot in our over-praised criminal code. 1863J. C. Jeaffreson Sir Everard's Dau. 121 The rather mean and very much over-praised quality, called common-sense. |