PRAISING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does praising mean? 

• PRAISING (adjective)
  The adjective PRAISING has 1 sense:

1. full of or giving praise

  Familiarity information: PRAISING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRAISING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Full of or giving praise

Synonyms:

laudatory; praiseful; praising

Context example:

a laudatory remark

Similar:

complimentary (conveying or resembling a compliment)

 Context examples 

We shew Fanny what a good girl we think her by praising her to her face, she is now a very valuable companion.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I would listen to him go on praising Mina for a day, so I simply nodded and stood silent.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Jo couldn't resist giving that little slap, but May took it so meekly she regretted it a minute after, and fell to praising the great vases, which still remained unsold.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And she talked in this way so long and successfully that, when forced to give her attention again to her father and sister, she had nothing worse to hear than Isabella's kind inquiry after Jane Fairfax; and Jane Fairfax, though no great favourite with her in general, she was at that moment very happy to assist in praising.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The NFL released a statement praising the study for its role in advancing the science related to chronic head injuries and said it is working with “a wide range of experts to improve the health of current and former NFL athletes.

(Study: Brain Disease Found in Nearly All Deceased US Football Players, VOA News)

I suppose, sir, said I, still desiring to spare my aunt, that it is not the custom here, if an articled clerk were particularly useful, and made himself a perfect master of his profession—I could not help blushing, this looked so like praising myself—I suppose it is not the custom, in the later years of his time, to allow him any— Mr. Spenlow, by a great effort, just lifted his head far enough out of his cravat to shake it, and answered, anticipating the word “salary”: No.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Her merit in being gifted by Nature with strength and courage was fully appreciated by the Miss Bertrams; her delight in riding was like their own; her early excellence in it was like their own, and they had great pleasure in praising it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)