Definition of "extolment" noun countable and uncountable , plural extolments
(obsolete) Praise . quotations
Quotations Sir , his definement suffers no perdition in you , though , I know , to divide him inventorially would dizzy the arithmetic of memory , and yet but yaw neither , in respect of his quick sail . But , in the verity of extolment , I take him to be a soul of great article , and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as , to make true diction of him , his semblable in his mirror , and who else would trace him , his umbrage , nothing more.
c. 1599-1602, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, act 5, scene 2; republished as Hamlet, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1992, page 113