panegyric
noun
a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
panegyrical
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a word derived from
panegyric.
Example Sentences
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The authority for this statement, as for most others concerning Ascham’s early life, is Edward Grant, headmaster of Westminster, who collected and edited his letters and delivered a panegyrical oration on his life in 1576.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
One would have imagined that the writer of his own panegyrical epitaph would have been careful to have transmitted to posterity a copy of his features; but I know of no portrait of Toland.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
There is not a speech, a poem, essay, a panegyrical oration in praise of either Athenian liberty or Greek love which does not tell the tale of this heroic friendship.
From A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion by John Addington Symonds
A fulsome editor is pardonable though tiresome, like a panegyrical son whose pious sincerity would demi-deify his father.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
His return to England was accompanied by his weakest exhibition—the exhuming and bringing over of the bones of Thomas Paine, whom he had once heartily abused, but on whom he now wrote a panegyrical ode.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
