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Example Sentences
Main Entry:
en·co·mi·um
[
en-
koh
-mee-
uh
m
]
/
ɛnˈkoʊ
mi
əm
/
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Part of Speech:
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encomium
Main Entry:
encomium
Part of Speech:
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Main Entry:
encomium
Part of Speech:
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Example Sentences
Instead, he delivers an overdue and well-deserved
encomium
to a largely denigrated chapter in the city's history.
The danger is that to quote so many who knew him threatens to make the book a sustained
encomium
.
Excessive praise is even worse when it is unwanted praise, or what specialists refer to as dissonant
encomium
.
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Instead, he delivers an overdue and well-deserved
encomium
to a largely denigrated chapter in the city's history.
The danger is that to quote so many who knew him threatens to make the book a sustained
encomium
.
Excessive praise is even worse when it is unwanted praise, or what specialists refer to as dissonant
encomium
.
He then concludes with an
encomium
to expelled intestinal gas.
COLLAPSE
Main Entry:
encomium
Part of Speech:
Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008. Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
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