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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"He was," says his heathen panegyrist, Libanius, "the best of priests as he was the first of Emperors."
From Sermons by J. B. Lightfoot
In this, she has been very happily guided by her attachment for him; perhaps, indeed, she has done more for him than any panegyrist.
From Priests, Women, and Families by Jules Michelet
The greatest censurer of Justinian shall be his greatest panegyrist.
From A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 by Felix Dahn
He was particularly hard on Horace Vernet, that panegyrist of the piou-piou, as he called him.
From Fragments of an Autobiography by Felix Moscheles
But Leti has it, who is so far from a panegyrist that it deserves mention.
From The History of Freedom by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
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