encomium

Example Sentences

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Instead of being chastened, Springer and his producer Richard Dominick incorporated the questionable encomium into each episode's introduction.

From Salon • Apr. 28, 2023

As the priest assured their families that the quartet's loss was not in vain, the choir chanted the encomium "Memory Eternal" in Ukrainian.

From Reuters • Mar. 15, 2022

The result is both an encomium and an acknowledgment of music’s progress since the days of Xenakis.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2022

I’m as guilty as anyone of having blithely used that exaggerated encomium in composing year-end lists in the past.

From Washington Post • Dec. 6, 2021

The historians of France record, with high encomium, the virtues of one of their princes, a son of Louis Fifteenth, who died before his father.

From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard)