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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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 Cavendish, Georgiana
Manlius could not repress a smile at the singular situation of the panegyrist.
From A Christian But a Roman by Jókai, Mór
"His body," says his profest panegyrist, "was but a human cage, in which, however brief and narrow, dwelt a soul to whose flight the immeasurable expanse of heaven was too contracted."
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index by Lodge, Henry Cabot
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
Lamartine, in that history, becomes the panegyrist and the censor of the French Revolution.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor
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