encomium

Example Sentences

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Instead of being chastened, Springer and his producer Richard Dominick incorporated the questionable encomium into each episode's introduction.

From Salon • Apr. 28, 2023

As the priest assured their families that the quartet's loss was not in vain, the choir chanted the encomium "Memory Eternal" in Ukrainian.

From Reuters • Mar. 15, 2022

I’m as guilty as anyone of having blithely used that exaggerated encomium in composing year-end lists in the past.

From Washington Post • Dec. 6, 2021

The liner notes for “This Departing Landscape” include an encomium from one the British scene’s elders, Julian Anderson.

From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2021

It may be that we are to be content with very limited results, and with the encomium bestowed on the woman in the Gospel, “She hath done what she could.”

From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by Blaikie, William Garden