panegyric
noun
a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
panegyrical
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a word derived from
panegyric.
Example Sentences
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It would have strained the ingenuity and the enthusiasm of Claud Halcro himself to have extracted matter for a panegyrical ode on this conversion of "glorious John."
From The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by John Dryden
One would have imagined that the writer of his own panegyrical epitaph would have been careful to have transmitted to posterity a copy of his features; but I know of no portrait of Toland.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
Was ever more panegyrical language used in biography?
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
His return to England was accompanied by his weakest exhibition—the exhuming and bringing over of the bones of Thomas Paine, whom he had once heartily abused, but on whom he now wrote a panegyrical ode.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
Whence flow the panegyrical melodies that precede the march of these heroes?
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
