encomiastic

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There is no effort to conceal any facts which may be supposed to weaken the general impression, or to introduce explanatory or encomiastic statements which may be thought to strengthen and enhance it.

From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I by Cox, Francis Augustus

Let us now have before us “The King of Yvetot,” with an appropriate contrast to it afterward supplied in one of these encomiastic pieces.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

In rhetoric, they say the first part was demonstrative or encomiastic, the second deliberative, the third judicial.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

Both are encomiastic, and describe the character and work of the deceased with considerable fulness and beauty of expression.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various

This little book contains an account of the trial of Richard II., and was dedicated to the Earl of Essex in very encomiastic terms.

From Bacon is Shake-Speare by Durning-Lawrence, Sir Edwin