Synonyms:
laud, extol, exalt, glorify, proclaim
Meaning: praise, glorify, or honor; "extol the virtues of one's children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking"
Usage examples
To those who knew him his silence concerning it was a louder protest against the policy of Laud than the fiercest denunciations of the puritans.
"That all with one consent praise new-born gawds, Tho they are made and moulded of things past, And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted."
Laud and his associates, by reviving a few primitive institutions of this nature, corrected the error of the first reformers, and presented to the affrightened and astonished mind some sensible, exterior observances, which might occupy it during its religious exercises, and abate the violence of its disappointed efforts.