panegyrist
Americannoun
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
Example Sentences
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Their French was so good that it attracted Sainte-Beuve's attention and praise, while quite recently she has had a devoted panegyrist and editor in Switzerland, where, after her marriage, she was domiciled.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
What an elegant panegyrist you are! in three words you have comprized his eulogium, which I should have spent hours about, and not so compleated at last.
From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Georgiana Cavendish
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 Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
So, recalling this incident, cried her eloquent panegyrist at her funeral service a quarter of a century later.
From Henrietta Maria by Henrietta Haynes
He was a diligent panegyrist of country life and country ways, but no single work of his in this class comes up to the masterpieces of Ronsard, Du Bellay, and Belleau.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
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