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Definition of Overpraises
1. overpraise [v] - See also: overpraise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overpraises
Literary usage of Overpraises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1880)
"Dr. Lindsay overpraises our pets. The need of the hour is a work on the stupidity
of animals, showing how little they know or are organized for knowing ..."
2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"He overpraises many things. The old residence of the Gwalior princes he describes
as " a magic palace entirely encrusted with precious stones. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"He perhaps overpraises Mr. "Willi*, and under-estimates Byrant, but in his review
of the latter he does full justice to Wordsworth. ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1896)
"Scott, who was a kindred spirit, bestows on her works what seems exaggerated
praise—as indeed he overpraises others of his feminine contemporaries, ..."
5. The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly (1894)
""Mrs. Saltram," I explained, "undervalues him where he is strongest, so that, to
make up for it perhaps, she overpraises him where he's weak. ..."
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