dithyrambic

• Why then should we not join in dithyrambic oratory, and set all our mores to optimism? —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
• It's true I won't grow dithyrambic--not just yet. —  Foe-Farrell
• It is of course true that he has never reached or attempted to reach the gorgeous rhapsodies of De Quincey or the dithyrambic melodies of Ruskin. —  Studies in Early Victorian Literature
• In "Ivanhoe," too, there is something like a dithyrambic lament over the decay of knighthood--"The 'scutcheons have long mouldered from the walls," etc.; but even here, enthusiasm is tempered by good sense, and Richard of the Lion Heart is described as an example of the "brilliant but useless character of a knight of romance." —  A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
• His prose is as lyrical as his verse, and his praise and blame both in excess--dithyrambic laudation or affluent billingsgate. —  A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century

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