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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Then too flourished the great panegyrist Enveree, and a crowd of historians, jurists, and divines.
From Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Keightley, Thomas
His chief panegyrist can only say, "in worse times there have been worse chancellors."
From The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Parker, Theodore
The opening poem "To England", well exhibits the versatility of Mrs. Winifred V. Jordan, who here appears as a national panegyrist of commendable dignity and unexceptionable taste.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
He was particularly hard on Horace Vernet, that panegyrist of the piou-piou, as he called him.
From Fragments of an Autobiography by Moscheles, Felix
"He was," says his heathen panegyrist, Libanius, "the best of priests as he was the first of Emperors."
From Sermons by Lightfoot, J. B.
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