praise-worthy

comparative more praise-worthy · superlative most praise-worthy

1. archaicArchaic form of praiseworthy.

   Before we close this part of the cathedral, it is impossible not to notice the very praise-worthy manner in which the Sunday service is performed in the choir; […]

   1814, J[ohn] Britton, J[ames] Norris Brewer, J[ohn] Hodgson, F[rancis] C[harles] Laird, The Beauties of England and Wales: or, Original Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County, volume XV, London: […] J. Harris; Longman and Co.; J. Walker; R. Baldwin; […], page 83

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   This is a pitiful defence, for ’tis certain there are people who are not judged to be praiſe-worthy altho they be praiſed by others: but I ſay that there are others which are deemed praiſe-worthy in effect, only becauſe we find ’em generally commended in the Age wherein they lived, and in the following ones, without being blamed by any body.

   1684, Jean Claude, translated by J. R. R., The Catholick Doctrine of the Eucharist in All Ages, R. Royston, page 261

   “[…] And you know there is generally an uncle or a grandfather to leave a fortune to the second son.” “A very praise-worthy practice,” said Edmund, “but not quite universal. I am one of the exceptions, and being one, must do something for myself.”

   1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 190