paean
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It’s a wistful, country-folk paean that offers both a wry yet realistic assessment of the disposition of collections someone leaves the planet.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
Emerging bluesman Sammie plays a song he wrote as a confession to his pastor father, a paean to the music he loves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026
But as admiring as “Cover-Up” may be about Seymour Hersh, it is hardly a paean to American mass media.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
He insisted that he was an independent artist, proving the point by providing decadent, images for an edition of Thomas Malory’s paean to heroic chivalry, “Le Morte d’Arthur.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
In celebrating Henry's victories, Shakespeare was also celebrating England's more recent victories over her enemies abroad, so that the play is a great national paean, the song of heroic, triumphant England.
From An Introduction to Shakespeare by H. N. MacCracken
Vocabulary lists containing paean
Antigone
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"The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe
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Poe's Favorite Words, collected by Charles Harrington Elster
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