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panegyrist

[ pan-i-jir-ist, -jahy-rist, pan-i-jir-ist, -jahy-rist ]

noun

  1. a person who panegyrizes; eulogist.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of panegyrist1

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 ( panegyrize ) + -istēs -ist
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Example Sentences

Gao Wenqian, a former panegyrist for the Communist Party, fled after the horrors of Tiananmen Square and now works in New York.

Seriously, Mme. Sandeau's enthusiasm is great, and in her you have an advocate, a more than zealous panegyrist.

It seems that Turner was more catholic in his tastes than his panegyrist.

Canovai was another biographer, and a still warmer panegyrist.

Peevish, querulous, a panegyrist of former times when he was a boy, a chastiser and censurer of his juniors.

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

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