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  • noun Plural form of eulogy.

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Examples

  • ... and we're about to be hit with a overly generous eulogies from a lot of people who should know better.

    Archive 2004-06-01 2004

  • ... and we're about to be hit with a overly generous eulogies from a lot of people who should know better.

    So, Ronald Reagan has died... 2004

  • ... and we're about to be hit with a overly generous eulogies from a lot of people who should know better.

    Quote of the day 2004

  • Crowe believes her eulogies are a convenient means of consolation.

    Internet: May (Insert Name Here) Rest In Peace 2007

  • Left out of the eulogies was the true scorched earth legacy he left behind.

    The War on Working Americans - Part II 2007

  • Left out of the eulogies was the true scorched earth legacy he left behind.

    The War on Working Americans - Part II 2007

  • He replied that never in his life had Brahms known what it was to be natural, that his eulogies were the worst possible censure, and that although he -- Christophe -- was not very polite, as she had justly observed, never would he have gone so far as to say anything so unpleasant.

    Jean-Christophe, Volume I Romain Rolland 1905

  • These two portraits, they are too true to be called eulogies, thoroughly describe Sir William as he was in friendship, as he was not only to his original contemporaries but to their sons, so that he came to be a generally looked up to father, as it were, to the magistracy of the county as well as the neighbourhood.

    John Keble's Parishes Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • The sitting was well attended, and I dare say the addresses were not amiss; though there is something exceedingly tiresome in one of these eulogies, that is perpetrated by malice prepense.

    Recollections of Europe James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • The excitement at Lubetkin’s arrival recalled the eulogies delivered upon her supposed death in 1943, which combined in her all the prominent symbols of the Zionist renaissance, from the courage of Masada through the heroic battle at Tel Hai to the pioneer uprising in the ghettos.

    Zivia Lubetkin. 2009

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