eulogize
verb (used with object)
to praise highly.
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
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Instead of addressing one of the pattern members of the Fourth, she had been eulogizing Githa Hamilton.
From The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life by Angela Brazil