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Hence Grossman’s remarks about Wood lacking the “language” to praise the book, as though the praiseworthiness of the book was ultimately a given.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 19, 2014

Especially if it’s an object or system with complex behaviors that are difficult to understand in purely mechanistic terms, we’ll attribute pretty much any entity with a range of humanlike properties including praiseworthiness and blameworthiness.

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2013

The pleasurable emotion of satisfaction arises later through habit and reflection; it accompanies the thought of the merit and praiseworthiness of the victory over self.

From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Nordau, Max Simon

Next to the praiseworthiness of a good Samaritan, who takes care of the houseless and the stranger, is the merit of the benevolent individual who tells you the good Samaritan's address.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various

That might conceivably alter the praise, but it would surely not alter the praiseworthiness.

From Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies by Stephen, Leslie, Sir