cry up

present singular third person cries up · participle present crying up · participle past cried up · past cried up

1. transitiveTo extol, praise.

   Some great decorum, some fetish of a government, some ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half, as if all depended on this particular up or down.

   1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar

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   Though we cry up the great advantage we have above all other animals, in being capable of religion, yet those animals, we despise for want of it, herd most socially together; except such carnivorous creatures which necessity separates.

   1730, Matthew Tindal, Christianity as Old as the Creation

   Synonyms: exalt, honor, laud, aggrandize, applaud, enthrone, appraise, belaud