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panegyric
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synonyms: encomium, paean, gloss, eulogium ???
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Definition:a public speech/text in praise of something or someone
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Then had come Lord Henry Wotton with his strange panegyric on youth, his terrible warning of its brevity.
Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray
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A full translation could only be an ideological translation, whereby Jefferson’s words would be changed into a panegyric on absolute government.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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“My little friend Grildrig, you have made a most admirable panegyric upon your country; you have clearly proved, that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator;
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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he did not discourse, but harangue; and his orations were equally tedious and turgid. He too pronounces ex cathedra upon the characters of his contemporaries; and though he scruples not to deal out praise, even lavishly, to the lowest reptile in Grubstreet who will either flatter him in private, or mount the public rostrum as his panegyrist, he damns all the other writers of the age, with the utmost insolence and rancour
Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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you meant it to be a sort of panegyric, of compliment to yourself
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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