belauds

A noted modern nostrum belauds the virtues of the Barberry as specific against bile, heartburn, and the black jaundice, this being

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

Stevenson belauds his own books and berates his own critics, we shall not find it difficult to guess why it is that Stevenson at least found

Heretics 1905

Thus I not only feel sore when he abuses a character whom I love, but I feel ashamed when he decries one whom I hate, for I am tempted to feel that I must have grossly misunderstood him; and even when he rapturously and unctuously belauds some figure that I admire, I feel my admiration to be smirched and tarnished.

The Silent Isle Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

Why, this very Pickwick whom he belauds -- can it be forgotten how Eatanswill shook its sides with laughter at the figure he made our besotted contemporary cut?

Pickwickian Studies Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879