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panegyric

[pan-i-jir-ik, -jahy-rik] / ˌpæn ɪˈdʒɪr ɪk, -ˈdʒaɪ rɪk /
ADJECTIVE
laudatory
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The whole film is a panegyric: big speeches and weighty moments with very little sense of play.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025

Yet in your book you deplore the panegyric as much as the unillumined attack.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021

Now we begin anew with a panegyric to the late 17th-century naturalist and scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian by Diane Ackerman.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 17, 2019

Hypnotized by the Cold War, he launched his attack on Rousseau and then on the idea of ‘‘positive’’ liberty, and in the name of liberal pluralism wrote a fulsome panegyric to ‘‘negative’’ liberty.

From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2017

After having made a few preparatory experiments, he concluded with a panegyric upon modern chemistry, the terms of which I shall never forget:

From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley


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