praise

     

In religion, praise is an impassione exaltation of God (ie. a Supreme Being, or Creation), typically as an expression of gratitude for one's life or being. In other cases, praise may be tied to more situational aspects such as health and prosperity.

Trivia about praise

  • Pope wrote of those who "damn with faint" this, "assent with civil leer"
  • William Somerset Maugham observed, "People ask you for criticism, but they only want" this
  • Done with his dictionary, Samuel Johnson had "little to fear or to hope from censure or from" this

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