panegyric

adjlaudatory

Synonyms for panegyric

adj laudatory

encomium

noun. compliment

Word Origin & History

"eulogy, laudation," c.1600, from French panégyrique (1510s), from Latin panegyricus "public eulogy," originally an adjective, "for a public festival," from Greek panegyrikos (logos) "(a speech) given in a public assembly," from panegyris "public assembly (especially in honor of a god)," from pan- "all" (see pan-) + agyris "place of assembly," Aeolic form of agora (see agora).

Example Sentences for panegyric

I could not endure to change my invective into panegyric all at once, and so soon.

The object of his discourse was a panegyric of himself and a satire on all other conjurors.

He pronounced the panegyric of Robespierre, and the apotheosis of Marat.

The Menexenus veils in panegyric the weak places of Athenian history.

Or again, let us suppose that both should have occasion to pronounce a panegyric.

There is no need for panegyric, for sounding phrases or rounded periods.

Philibert looked on his friend admiringly, at this panegyric of the woman he loved.

His book is neither a panegyric on clericalism nor a libel on it.

But with all this panegyric, he does not seem to have been careful to be just to the memory of his hero.

I could not resist uttering this panegyric on our well-loved captain.

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