superpraise

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ praise.

Pronunciation

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Verb

superpraise (third-person singular simple present superpraises, present participle superpraising, simple past and past participle superpraised)

1. (obsolete, rare) To overpraise; to praise highly.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     If you were men, as men you are in show,
     You would not use a gentle lady so;
     To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts,
     When, I am sure, you hate me with your hearts.

   • 1599, Uncredited translator, A Spiritual Doctrine Conteining a Rule to Live Wel, with Divers Praiers and Meditations, by Louis of Granada, Louan, published in English Recusant Literature, Volume 204, 1974, p. 178,^[1]

     Blessed art thou in the holie temple of thie glorie, and superpraised and superglorious for euer.