encomiastic

• To choose from thousands of masterpieces one only is a very delicate test If the Dutch Government, stimulated to gratitude for the encomiastic character of the present book, were to offer me my choice of the Ryks Museum pictures I should not hesitate a moment. —  A Wanderer in Holland
• Indeed the press of London had yielded itself up to an encomiastic orgy. —  Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days
• If the irony is depreciatory, posterity is but too likely to say, "Many a true word is spoken in jest;" if it is encomiastic, the same ruthless and ungrateful critic is but too likely to take it as an involuntary confession of folly and vanity. —  Joseph Andrews Vol 1
• He published, soon afterwards, a volume of poems, with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron, the —  Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope
• Thus Donne shows his medicinal knowledge in some encomiastic verses: —  Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley

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