Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A formal eulogistic composition intended as a public compliment.
- noun Elaborate praise or laudation; an encomium.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Addressed to a festal assembly; epidictic; hence, containing praise or eulogy; of the nature of panegyric; encomiastic.
- noun A eulogy, written or spoken, in praise of some person or achievement; a formal or elaborate encomium.
- noun Praise bestowed on some person, action, or character; laudation: as, a tone of exaggerated panegyric.
- noun Synonyms Encomium, etc. see
eulogy . - To praise.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Containing praise or eulogy; encomiastic; laudatory.
- noun An oration or eulogy in praise of some person or achievement; a formal or elaborate encomium; a laudatory discourse; laudation. See Synonym of
eulogy .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
formal speech oropus publicly praising someone or something.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a formal expression of praise
- adjective formally expressing praise
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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As arguedin this panegyric from the British Observer website, the 30-episode surreal crime drama subtly revolutionized television drama, moving it away from the superficial episodicsof the 80s towards the meatier, more literate fare that’s become the modern bastion of cable television from The Sopranos on down.
Miscellaneous Debris, March 2010 Edition « Screaming Blue Reviews 2010
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The exultant father, from his place in the Senate, expressed his thanks to Theodoric in an oration of panegyric, which is now no longer extant, but was considered by contemporaries a masterpiece of brilliant rhetoric.
Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation Thomas Hodgkin 1872
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The panegyric is a piece of courtly flattery in accordance with the cringing and fawning manners of the times.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Anne C. Lynch Botta 1853
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At another recent meeting, Yaroslavsky delivered a 1,165-word panegyric commemorating five people, including former Czech president Vaclav Havel and writer Christopher Hitchens, neither of whom had significant dealings with the county.
News - latimes.com By Ja 2012
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As to the justice of his panegyric, that is matter of taste.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815
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As to the justice of his panegyric, that is matter of taste.
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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To appoint a biographer is to bespeak a panegyric; and I doubt whether they who collect their books for the Public, and, like me, are conscious of no intrinsic worth, do but beg mankind to accept of talents (whatever they were) in lieu of virtues.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757
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For those worried that Gitlin and Leibovitz have written some kind of panegyric on America and Israel, fear not.
Andrei Markovits: The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel and the Ordeals of Divine Elections 2010
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For those worried that Gitlin and Leibovitz have written some kind of panegyric on America and Israel, fear not.
Andrei Markovits: The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel and the Ordeals of Divine Elections 2010
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For those worried that Gitlin and Leibovitz have written some kind of panegyric on America and Israel, fear not.
Andrei Markovits: The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel and the Ordeals of Divine Elections 2010
sera commented on the word panegyric
encomium
August 13, 2007
milosrdenstvi commented on the word panegyric
This is an incredibly useful word. I generally use it insincerely when I hear formal speakers go on at length about much they like their hosts.
March 21, 2009
jwjarvis commented on the word panegyric
And it is all presented, in the panegyrics of its partisans, as a net economic gain without offsets.
October 2, 2010