encomiastic
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But he is careful to recapitulate all his services, and the encomiastic notices they had drawn from various quarters, while he details his losses with the most elaborate minuteness.
From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport)
To this pamphlet, Governor Hamilton had prefixed "an encomiastic advertisement."
From Rise of the New West, 1819-1829 by Turner, Frederick Jackson
How splendid—what taste—how very beautiful—so elegant—so massive—so chaste! and fifty other encomiastic phrases.
From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James
They have been encomiastic even in regard to her voice and her manner of singing.
From The Merry-Go-Round by Van Vechten, Carl
The account of Shakspeare may stand as a perpetual model of encomiastic criticism, exact without minuteness, and lofty without exaggeration.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
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