encomiast

• Liberty called in vain upon her votaries to read her praises, and reward her encomiast: her praises were condemned to harbour spiders, and to gather dust: none of Thomson's performances were so little regarded. —  Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2
• Friendship, that theme of the encomiast, is neither more nor less, you will find, than the beginning of sponging. —  Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03
• "Though I doubt if this drivelling encomiast of War —  The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry
• Abul Fazl, the historian and friend of the magnanimous Akbar, and the encomiast and advocate of the Hindu race. —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
• What this encomiast says in a rhetorical tone was literally true. —  The Caesars

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