panegyrist

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[pan-i-jir-ist, -jahy-rist, pan-i-jir-ist, -jahy-rist] / ˌpæn ɪˈdʒɪr ɪst, -ˈdʒaɪ rɪst, ˈpæn ɪˌdʒɪr ɪst, -ˌdʒaɪ rɪst /

noun

1. a person who panegyrizes; eulogist.

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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

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panegyrist

Then, adroitly singing soft praises of Sansuta to the brother’s pleased ear, he insured in him a faithful ally and warm panegyrist.

From The White Squaw by Reid, Mayne

Lamartine, in that history, becomes the panegyrist and the censor of the French Revolution.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor

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

Let me, therefore, be for a page or two the apologist, nay, rather the panegyrist, of the college oarsman, with whom many of my happiest hours have been spent.

From Rowing by Lehmann, Rudolf Chambers

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