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praising

verbnounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈpɹeɪzɪŋ//

An act of giving praise.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of praisepresent participle and gerund of praise

noun

  1. 1

    An act of giving praise.

    We ask people all the time, “How many of you are sick and tired of all the praisings you get at work or at home?” Everybody laughs, because most of us do not naturally think of cheering each other on.

Forms

plural
praisings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).