panegyrist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of panegyrist
1595–1605; < Late Latin panēgyrista < Greek panēgyristḗs one who takes part in a public festival or assembly, equivalent to panēgyr ( izein ) to celebrate a public festival ( see panegyrize) + -istēs -ist
Example Sentences
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He was particularly hard on Horace Vernet, that panegyrist of the piou-piou, as he called him.
From Fragments of an Autobiography by Moscheles, Felix
The greatest censurer of Justinian shall be his greatest panegyrist.
From A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 by Dahn, Felix
He makes out Eusebius to have been simply an ambitious and cruel courtier; calls him a calumniator, a panegyrist rather than an historian, and accuses him of falsifying the edicts of Constantine.
From Frauds and Follies of the Fathers A Review of the Worth of their Testimony to the Four Gospels by Wheeler, Joseph Mazzini
Canovai was another biographer, and a still warmer panegyrist.
From The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career by Casas, Bartolom? de las
"Envy," it has been said, "permits every one to be the panegyrist of his own probity, but not of his own wit."
From A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" by Fran?ois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
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