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Definition of Bepraises
1. bepraise [v] - See also: bepraise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bepraises
Literary usage of Bepraises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of English Literature by Henri Van Laun, Hippolyte Taine (1871)
"With what minuteness he bepraises her! He knocks at her door; the intended
purchaser meantime, growing impatient, is treating him like a slave. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1858)
"The United States of America are the idol which his Quaker heart worships and
his tongue bepraises. And yet, at every turn of1 his fiery oratory, ..."
3. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1839)
"The same man who bepraises you when dead, would have plagued you without mercy
when living. Thus as between Pitt and Fox. ..."
4. The Metropolitan (1847)
"He beholds nought beyond its outside glare and tinsel,—its glittering edges aud
gaudy binding, and he mostly bepraises, and admires above all beside, ..."
5. The Chinese and Their Rebellions: Viewed in Connection with Their National by Thomas Taylor Meadows (1856)
"Was it Sparta, which devoted herself almost exclusively to the "loud war" that
our poet laureate bepraises, or was it industrial and commercial Athens ? ..."
6. The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K. G. by Edwin Hodder (1893)
"The success has been hitherto complete ; almost every paper bepraises the step,
and writes upon it in an anti-revolutionary tone. Ay, truly, this is the way ..."
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