paean
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“Founder’s Fire” is no uncritical paean to the greatness of this country.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
Emerging bluesman Sammie plays a song he wrote as a confession to his pastor father, a paean to the music he loves.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026
“All’s Fair” is a paean to the classic Hollywood movies Murphy adores, with its most direct spiritual influence being the 1939 adaptation of “The Women.”
From Salon • Nov. 6, 2025
And during Ms. Kealani’s closing paean to Charles X, once again sensitively accompanied by the solo harp, the Gérard picture slowly assembled, with the painting itself finally projected onto the singers and Paulo Fantin’s set.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 1, 2025
Cicero preferred the cretic – ∪ – which he says is the metrical equivalent of the paean.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
Vocabulary lists containing paean
Antigone
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"The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe
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Poe's Favorite Words, collected by Charles Harrington Elster
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