encomiast
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Origin of encomiast
1600–10; < Greek enkōmiast(ḗs), equivalent to enkōmi(on) encomi(um) + -ast ( def. )
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She needs no encomiast, star-crowned she stands, the glory of America, the admiration of the world.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper
Rev. Mr. Pyke, the object of the verses, deserves a better encomiast.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
Truly! it surprises me that some one does not spring up, and, though others hesitate, extol my plan, explain its advantages, and spare me the pain of being my own encomiast.
From Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Oxenford, John
It is rather unpleasant, in view of this generous—if overstrained— tribute, to find the object of it referring later to the works of his encomiast as "thin sown with profit or delight."
From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Lamb, Charles
But it is easier to be his encomiast than his disciple.
From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul
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