panegyric
IPA: pˈænɪdʒˈɪrɪk
noun
- A formal speech publicly praising someone or something.
- Someone who writes or delivers such a speech.
adjective
- panegyrical
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Examples of "panegyric" in Sentences
- The panegyric tone is not encyclopaedic.
- This panegyric is extant at the present day.
- He reads it as a panegyric from his viewpoint.
- The homily forms part of Chrysostom's corpus of panegyrics.
- He was the subject of a panegyric by Saint Augustine of Hippo.
- This book is a panegyric to the Communist future of the mankind.
- It is a court panegyric and highly praiseworthy of its namesake.
- Qasida is often panegyric written in praise of a king or a nobleman.
- In Roman and Merovingian times, it was a custom to declare panegyrics.
- The eulogy was published to great acclaim and is considered a classic panegyric.
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