dithyrambic

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When I left the politicians, I went to the poets; tragic, dithyrambic, and all sorts.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

It is thus easier to understand the dithyrambic peroration with which, speaking as if in the presence of the Deity, the Premier opened the Gaullist campaign at a rally in Paris.

From Time Magazine Archive

The 400 members and guests of the Poetry Society of America gave out a dithyrambic cheer of agreement as they presented the society's Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement to Marianne Moore, 79.

From Time Magazine Archive

For its old-fashioned tone of measured argument and full-throated dithyrambic indignation, it should be one of the great political pamphlets of our time.

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In the opinion of antiquity, pure dithyrambic poetry reached its climax in a lost poem.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various