encomiastic
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They have been encomiastic even in regard to her voice and her manner of singing.
From The Merry-Go-Round by Carl Van Vechten
To this pamphlet, Governor Hamilton had prefixed "an encomiastic advertisement."
From Rise of the New West, 1819-1829 by Frederick Jackson Turner
Indeed the press of London had yielded itself up to an encomiastic orgy.
From Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days by Arnold Bennett
At the publication the wits seemed proud to pay their attendance with encomiastic verses.
From Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1 by Samuel Johnson
Both are encomiastic, and describe the character and work of the deceased with considerable fulness and beauty of expression.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
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