panegyrical

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

And I say the same of panegyrical orations, discourses on special occasions, funeral sermons, and the like.

From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by Newman, John Henry

Birmingham, indeed, has recently been styled "the best governed city in the world"—a title that is, perhaps, a trifle too full and panegyrical to find ready and general acceptance.

From A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald" by Anderton, Thomas

A fulsome editor is pardonable though tiresome, like a panegyrical son whose pious sincerity would demi-deify his father.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas