encomiast
noun
a person who utters or writes an encomium; eulogist.
encomiastic
-
a word derived from
encomiast.
Example Sentences
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If the Dutch Government, stimulated to gratitude for the encomiastic character of the present book, were to offer me my choice of the Ryks Museum pictures I should not hesitate a moment.
From A Wanderer in Holland by Herbert Marshall, R.W.S.
There is no effort to conceal any facts which may be supposed to weaken the general impression, or to introduce explanatory or encomiastic statements which may be thought to strengthen and enhance it.
From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I by Francis Augustus Cox
To this pamphlet, Governor Hamilton had prefixed "an encomiastic advertisement."
From Rise of the New West, 1819-1829 by Frederick Jackson Turner
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
In rhetoric, they say the first part was demonstrative or encomiastic, the second deliberative, the third judicial.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
