Other forms: praised, praising, praises
To praise is to say publicly how good somebody or something is. Praise her work, widely praised, praise him for it.
The construction is praise somebody for something. As a noun it is uncountable — high praise, full of praise, praise from her means something. In religion, praise is worship expressed in words or song, which is the oldest sense and gives praise the Lord. Note damn with faint praise, meaning to criticise by praising weakly, and that praise is one of the cheapest and most effective management tools there is.
1verbpraiseTo say publicly how good somebody or something is.
“Every review praised the photography and ignored the story.”
2nounwordsWords expressing approval.
“Praise from him was worth about a year of anybody else's.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
praise is an expression of approval.
Old French preisier comes from Latin pretium, a price — the same root as price, precious and appreciate. To praise something was originally to put a value on it, and the good opinion came from valuing it highly.
Middle English
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English, today
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Built from
From Middle English praise, preyse, from the verb (see below). a doublet of prize. Displaced native lof from lof and loenge, loange from löenge, löange (“praise”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA