Other forms: extolled, extolling, extols
To extol is to praise something very highly. Extol the virtues of it, extol her courage, extol the benefits.
It is a formal word and nearly always takes virtues or merits as its object. The Latin means to lift up, so the praise raises the thing above the rest.
1verbextolTo praise something very highly.
“The advertisement went on to extol the virtues of the new engine.”
extol is a praising.
Latin extollere means to lift up or raise high, from ex plus tollere, to raise.
Proto-Indo-European
*telh₂- (bear)
Latin
extollō — elevate, raise high
English, today
extol
Latin extollō (“elevate, raise high”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA