[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. EXTOL.
1558. Act 1 Eliz., c. 1 § 27. If any Person … shall … execute any Thing for the Extolling … or Defence of any such … usurped Jurisdiction.
1560. Declar. Faith, in Neal, Hist. Purit. (1732), I. 161. I do utterly disallow the extolling of Images.
1620. Shelton, Quix., II. xxv. 164. These praises and extollings doe more properly belong to you then mee.
1709. Strype, Ann. Ref., I. xxvi. 270. The extolling of the Bishop of Rome made Premunire for the second Offence.
1858. Froude, Hist. Eng., III. xii. 75. A third [injunction] forbade the extolling the special virtues of images and relics.
