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 speechextols the virtues of order and degree.• We have had several letters from readersextolling the virtues ofponies, and how many are having enormousfun 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 ConservativeParty 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 tutorextols the virtues of this approach and you, of course, agree.
Originextol
(1500-1600)Latinextollere, from tollere“to lift up”