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Definition of Extolments
1. extolment [n] - See also: extolment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extolments
Literary usage of Extolments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of a Regiment: A History of the Campaigns, and Associations in the by Ebenezer Hannaford (1868)
"... far surpassing the noblest essay of eulogy and all the extolments which rhetoric
may recount. Thank God, those sacrifices had not been wholly fruitless! ..."
2. The Book of the Sonnet by Leigh Hunt, S Adams Lee (1867)
"Nor are the other sex, whose good-will he has not so bespoken, less fervid in
their extolments. Throughout the whole series of Italian poets, not excepting ..."
3. Stories from the Italian Poets: With Critical Notices of the Life and Genius by Leigh Hunt, Dante Alighieri, Torquato Tasso, Lodovico Ariosto, Luigi Pulci (1846)
"... his own pretensions equalled only by his enthusiastic extolments of genius in
others; and the reader has before him the lively and affecting, hopeful, ..."
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