paean

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  1. noun A song of joyful praise or exultation.
  2. noun A fervent expression of joy or praise: "The art . . . was a paean to paganism” (Will Durant).
  3. noun An ancient Greek hymn of thanksgiving or invocation, especially to Apollo.

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  • William Sanders's “The Last Madman” could be taken as a paean to Prozac and its ilk, but that's not the way to read it, not at all. —  AnalogSFF,April2008
  • It closes—and the book closes—with a sort of sugarplum paean, the sweets and spices being in the end gracefully spiritualised. —  George Washington's Rules of Civility
  • I've always wanted to use the word paean in a post -- —  Alec Saunders SquawkBox
  • She moved proudly to the incessant music of a paean, aye! —  Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
  • For us it may be a paean or it may be a dirge, and only the gods know which! —  The Long Roll
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  1. Latin paeān, hymn of thanksgiving, often addressed to Apollo, from Greek paiān, from Paiā, a title of Apollo.
 

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