paean

• “I've always wanted to use the word paean in a post --”

  Alec Saunders SquawkBox

• “Its impact on Reilly, who was at Wilson's bedside at the very end, ran much deeper, and while this work is explicitly signalled as a 'paean' - literally a song of joy or exultation - it is one etched in melancholy notes.”

  Drowned In Sound // Feed

• “How else to explain Vogue editor Anna Wintour's decision this month to publish a 3,000-word paean to that "freshest and most magnetic of first ladies," Syria's Asma al-Assad?”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Dictator's Wife Wears Louboutins

• “Barney Ronay took time out from lovingly carving 'BR+JC' into a tree-trunk to rattle out this 908-word paean to new Liverpool recruit Joe Cole.”

  The Guardian: $tevie Says Relax, I'm Staying At Liverpool

• “The word paean – pronounced “pee-an” – is an old one that has fallen into disuse.”

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• “The paean was a prayer for all seasons and occasions, from war to weddings.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Trojan War

• “The paean was a ritual chant that the men of classical Greek armies sang as they advanced into battle, rallied, or celebrated victory.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES

• “The paean was a ritual chant that classical Greek soldiers and sailors sang as they advanced into battle, rallied, or celebrated victory.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES

• “The paean was the war chant sung by troops going into battle.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES

• “The paean is a third class of rhythm, closely akin to both the two already mentioned; it has in it the ratio of three to two, whereas the other two kinds have the ratio of one to one, and two to one respectively.”

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