encomiast
noun
a person who utters or writes an encomium; eulogist.
encomiastic
-
a word derived from
encomiast.
Example Sentences
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To this pamphlet, Governor Hamilton had prefixed "an encomiastic advertisement."
From Rise of the New West, 1819-1829 by Frederick Jackson Turner
It is the encomiastic mood that makes them so charming.
From A Wanderer in Venice by Harry Morley
At the publication the wits seemed proud to pay their attendance with encomiastic verses.
From Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1 by Samuel Johnson
The account of Shakspeare may stand as a perpetual model of encomiastic criticism, exact without minuteness, and lofty without exaggeration.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
After the first course, one coming to Herodes the rhetorician brought a palm and a wreathed crown, which one of his acquaintance, who had won the prize for an encomiastic exercise, sent him.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
