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prayse

prayse is the obsolete spelling of praise.

Meaning of praise

Noun

praise (countable and uncountable, plural praises)

  1. Commendation; favourable representation in words.
    • The writer's latest novel received great praise in the media.
    Antonyms:
    blame
  2. Worship, glorification, adoration.
    • praise of God
    Synonyms:
    worship

See all 3 meanings of praise

Forms of prayse

Noun
pluralprayses
Verb
third-person singular presentprayses
present participlepraysing
past participlepraysed
pastpraysed

Questions about prayse

What is prayse the obsolete spelling of?
Prayse is the obsolete spelling of praise.

Words near prayse in the dictionary

  1. prays
  2. prays away the gay
  3. prays the gay away
  4. prays to the porcelain god
  5. prays to the porcelain goddess
  6. prayse
  7. praysed
  8. prayses
  9. praysing
  10. praytell
  11. Praytor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prayse (page history and authors); praise (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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