encomium
Example Sentences
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“It was my first attempt at an autobiographical thing,” Diamond told Rolling Stone of this encomium to an imaginary childhood friend.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
The director is Reginald Hudlin, but, in tone and temperament, this lovingly assembled encomium is peak Oprah Winfrey.
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 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
Granted, those who claim the authority to instruct the rest of us on what deserves that encomium missed its true significance.
From Salon • Feb. 29, 2020
It would be almost criminal to proceed in my account of the present cry without passing a due encomium on the subject of it.
From The Cries of London Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times by Smith, John Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing encomium
Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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Gulliver's Travels
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