extoll the virtues of

extoll the virtues of somebody/something

(formal)

to praise the good qualities of someone or something He wrote several magazine articles extolling the virtues of country life.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Calvagh	-	Irish
Henryka	hen-RI-kah	Polish
Rahel	-	Biblical Latin
Shaked	-	Hebrew
Toiba	-	Yiddish
Jacobus	yah-KO-bus (Dutch)	Dutch, Late Roman