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,

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