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
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
Certainly there was no evidence in its encomium to Koch.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2019
This encomium will apply to her sentiments On Household Economy, and On Deportment towards Servants.
From Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady by Chapone, Hester
Vocabulary lists containing encomium
Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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