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
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There never lived a poet, sticking to his business, that has not at some time in his career become a panegyrist of his extraordinary supposed qualities and a proclaimer of his magnificence.
From Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 by Various
It must not be imagined that Mr. Huc speaks of the Chinese in the spirit of a panegyrist.
From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
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
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
You will call me a panegyrist of Republicanism, or of France.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various
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