encomium

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Hear him described by one who has most carefully and laboriously written his encomium, that is to say, by John Ireland, his biographer.

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  1. noun Warm, glowing praise.
  2. noun A formal expression of praise; a tribute.

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  • Hear him described by one who has most carefully and laboriously written his encomium, that is to say, by John Ireland, his biographer. —  Charles Dickens as a Reader
  • Eric's encomium was all the more appreciative from the fact of his having been familiar with the ship through part of her last voyage. —  Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes
  • He's up there cursing now because they won't let him go to the office to plan out the article To the "Clarion," the presidential encomium was a tremendous boom professionally. —  The Clarion
  • After the first just encomium--what was this that was coming Relentless and inflexible the voice went on The rules of war, as applied to a non-commissioned officer, must also govern his superiors. —  The Littlest Rebel
  • Every other encomium is, to an intelligent mind, satire and reproach; the celebration of those virtues which we feel ourselves to want, can only impress a quicker sense of our own defects, and shew that we have not yet satisfied the expectations of the world, by forcing us to observe how much fiction must contribute to the completion of our character Yet sometimes the patron may claim indulgence; for it does not always happen, that the encomiast has been much encouraged to his attempt. —  The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II
 

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  1. Latin encōmium, from Greek enkōmion (epos), (speech) praising a victor, neuter of enkōmios, of the victory procession : en-, in; see en-2 + kōmos, celebration.

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  1. Formerly also encomion (and encomy, q. v.); = F. Spanish Portuguese Italian encomio, from Latin encomium, *encomion, from Greek ἐγκώμιον, a laudatory ode to a conqueror, a eulogy or panegyric on a living person, neuter of ἐγκώμιος, belonging to the praise or reward of a conqueror, properly to the Bacchic revel, in which the victor was led home in procession with music, dancing, and merriment, from ἐν, in, + κω̄μος, a revel: see Comus, comedy.
 

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/ɛnˈkoʊmiəm/
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