panegyrical

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A somewhat panegyrical biography�� and a scholarly travel book�� concerning Edward of Wales are current.

From Time Magazine Archive

From these gazettes could be collected “a greater number of panegyrical paragraphs upon ‘le grand Franklin’ than upon any other man that ever lived.”

From The True Benjamin Franklin by Fisher, Sydney George

It is rather satirical than panegyrical in character, and its poetical worth is very far from high.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

We need not go any further to prove the entire falsehood of the account commonly given by the panegyrical rhetoricians of Athens.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried

Mr. Macaulay would have aired the whole stores of his panegyrical vocabulary; and Sir John Hobhouse would not have gone abroad.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 by Various