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Examples of encomium
encomium
The blameless deportment of this man has been the theme of encomium.
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Then Ratzinger gave a stirring encomium to his great co-worker.
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Ernest Hemingway made a lengthy encomium to it in the notes for his novel, A Dangerous Summer.
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Her encomium about Shady Lane Cafe, 4806 Brownsboro Center, seemed to me to deserve extensive quotation.
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Harry does everything with verve, and this autobiography is, to use a time-honored encomium, rollicking.
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Glaeser's simplistic little encomium is close to infantile.
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Or how about an encomium meant to express the idealized, almost religious purity of Apple products?
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The most glorifying encomium is not sufficient praise for the astronauts'tenacity, gallantry and courage.
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Tough-minded but temperate, he authenticates the essential spirit of the encomium-a Christian gentleman.
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- A formal expression of praise
- Encomium is a Latin word deriving from the Classical Greek u1F10u03B3u03BAu03CEu03BCu03B9u03BFu03BD (enkomion) meaning "the praise of a person or thing." Encomium also refers to several distinct aspects of rhetoric:
- Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute; A general category of oratory; A method within rhetorical pedagogy; The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series; A genre of literature that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the person's ...
- Ode or song of praise for a person (usually alive).
- Part of thematic elaboration, it praises the speaker of a chreia to evoke the hearers' confidence that what the speaker says is true. The contrary, "censure" is when the speaker of a chreia creates a context in which the hearer feels confident that what the person is saying is false.
- A poem in praise of a living person, object, or event. Encomiums often use the ode form.
- (n) high or glowing praise; acclaim
