Word of the Day for Sunday, July 27, 2008

extol \ik-STOHL\, transitive verb:

To praise highly; to glorify; to exalt.

The processes of nature, which most writers extol as symbols of renewal and eternal life, were always seen darkly by Kerouac.
-- Ellis Amburn, Subterranean Kerouac: The Hidden Life of Jack Kerouac

Let your deeds themselves praise you, for here I leave them in all their glory, lacking words to extol them.
-- Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha

Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free,
How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee?
-- Arthur Christopher Benson, Song from Pomp and Circumstance by Sir Edward Elgar

Extol derives from Latin extollere, "to lift up, praise," from ex-, "up from" + tollere, "to lift up, elevate."

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