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  • noun Plural form of eloge.

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Examples

  • Wow, thank you for your full comment of eloges to my work and French, but I return you the compliment.

    Painting and Roleplaying MANDREWS 2006

  • Hanover, is come over with the King, et fait aussi vos eloges.

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • Three _eloges_, or _oraisons funèbres_, were delivered at the place of interment by Professor Broussais, Dr. Fossati, and Dr. Londe.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 346, December 13, 1828 Various

  • His series of eloges on the academicians who died between 1700 and 1772 is one of the most interesting works in the department of literary history.

    Diderot and the Encyclopaedists Morley, John, 1838-1923 1905

  • Aussi ai-je eprouve a etre loue par un pareil homme une jouissance infiniment plus vive que celle qu'auraient pu me procurer des eloges beaucoup plus hyperboliques, mais moins competents.

    Philip Gilbert Hamerton Hamerton, Philip G 1896

  • Bailly, in fact, was not blamed aloud; but when the hour for retreat had sounded in M. de Fouchy's ear, without any fuss, without showing himself offended in his self-love, remaining apparently modest, this learned man, in asking for an assistant, selected one who had not undertaken to repeat his eloges; who had not found his biographies insufficient.

    Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Arago, Francois 1859

  • Bailly followed the advice of the illustrious geometer, and chose as the subject of his studies, the eloges proposed by several academies, though principally by the French Academy.

    Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Arago, Francois 1859

  • But a far higher interest will be found to belong to those eloquent memoirs, or eloges of eminent departed men of science, who had attained the distinction of being members of the Academy.

    Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Arago, Francois 1859

  • The eloges of Condorcet were, besides, by their style, much more in harmony with those that the Academy had approved during three quarters of a century.

    Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Arago, Francois 1859

  • Among the eloges by Bailly, there is one, that of the Abbe de Lacaille, which not having been written for a literary academy, shows no longer any trace of inflation or declamation, and might, it seems to me, compete with some of the best eloges by Condorcet.

    Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Arago, Francois 1859

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