From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishextolex‧tol /ɪkˈstəʊl $ -ˈstoʊl/ verb (extolled, extolling) [transitive] formalPRAISE to praise something very muchextol the virtues/benefits etc of something a speech extolling the merits of free enterprise→ See Verb table
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extol• Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.• Everywhere, the glory of the ancient era is extolled in stone.• Thus ran the old rhyme, extolling the produce of the Bunnhouse, situated between Union and Westbourne Streets.• All the writings that extolled the role of Mary were ultimately excluded from the canon.• The fundamentalist opposition movements that extol the veil are reactivating this age-old connection.• But now is not the time to be extolling the virtues of Anglo-Saxon shareholder capitalism.• The extreme western edge of the square has the now compulsory big city billboards extolling the virtues of consumerism.extol the virtues/benefits etc of something• But now is not the time to be extolling the virtues of Anglo-Saxon shareholder capitalism.• The extreme western edge of the square has the now compulsory big city billboards extolling the virtues of consumerism.• The following speech extols the virtues of order and degree.• We have had several letters from readers extolling the virtues of ponies, and how many are having enormous fun with them.• At news conferences in each town, he dutifully steps to the podium and extols the virtues of such a noteworthy matchup.• Since the war, each time the Conservative Party has come into power it has extolled the virtues of the market.• The appraiser went on for some time, extolling the virtues of the scholarship.• The tutor extols the virtues of this approach and you, of course, agree.Origin extol (1500-1600) Latin extollere, from tollere “to lift up” 