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praise sb.: that for which a person or thing deserves to be praised, desert, virtue Mer.V. V. i. 108 “To their right praise and true perfection,” H5 III. vii. 51, Troil. II. ii. 145, Per. I. i. 15 “Her face the book of p-s,” Sonn. lxxxiv. 14 “praise, which makes your p-s worse.” ∥ In Tp. III. iii. 39 the common Eliz. proverbial phr. ‘praise at parting’ (=praise given not too soon, not till the entertainment is over) appears as “Praise in departing.”
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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