Encomium

Quick meaning: Encomium is a noun meaning Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.

Meaning

Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.

More Meanings

1. (rhetoric) A general category of oratory.
2. (rhetoric) A method within rhetorical pedagogy.
3. The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.
4. (literature) A genre of literature that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the person's life, comparisons used to praise the subject, and an epilogue.

Example Sentences

"I never seen their like," was Lassiter's encomium, "an' in my day I've seen a sight of horses."

Many a new locomotive class has received encomiums in these columns because its early work was outstanding, judged by the then prevailing standards.

I rejoined our people, and expected a reprimand for having forced the enemy without orders; though I had my excuse ready. But here I was mistaken; for I met with nothing but encomiums.

This is the last part but one (No. 10, dealing with engines absorbed after 1922, is still to come) of the monumental R.C.T.S. history, which needs no further encomium for students of G.W.R. locomotive practice.

Word Forms

• encomiums
• encomia

Synonyms for encomium

Depending on context, synonyms include eulogy, paean, panegyric, pean.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include panegyric, eulogy, paean, pean, praise, laudation.

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