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  • noun Plural form of encomium.

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Examples

  • One of the encomia recalled how he had, in his 80s, abseiled down his local church spire, even pausing to wave to the photographers.

    Simon Hoggart's week: Keeping ahead of the rhinos 2011

  • Its first attempt at empowerment, the big conversation, a carefully edited selection of encomia by the party faithful, had turned out too engaging by half, inspiring derisive ripostes everywhere except in the designated debating area.

    Let's all join in not signing up to this idea of e-petitions | Catherine Bennett 2011

  • Milestones are never a good time to achieve critical detachment, and the effusions of praise from colleagues that cram this coffee-table tribute—a vanity compendium of action and production photos, studded with faultless encomia from self-proclaimed friends—do little to illuminate the sphinx-like façade that is Mr. Levine's public persona.

    The Met's Rock of Ages Norman Lebrecht 2011

  • En route, the "reader" encounters other forms of composition — encomia, proverbs, and poetry — that produce eddies in an otherwise continuous flow that draws the eye (and body) around the chambers.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • Federico's guests, even if they could not discern the names and encomia (prominently) inscribed on the portraits, would have recognized most of the uomini illustri through quattrocento artistic conventions used for each subject's clothing, accessories, and gestures.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • It is clear from Mr. Bower's account that, while BP remained first and foremost an oil company, Lord Browne drank his own Kool-Aid, basking in encomia from the media and green mavens.

    Notes From Underground 2010

  • American politicians joined ambassadors and other officials of the Israeli right in a parade of encomia.

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

  • For the written encomia that accompany the portraits, visit the Gallery of the Illustrious Men. back

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • American politicians joined ambassadors and other officials of the Israeli right in a parade of encomia.

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

  • American politicians joined ambassadors and other officials of the Israeli right in a parade of encomia.

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

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