What does panegyric mean?
Panegyric means A formal speech publicly praising someone or something..
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/ˌpænəˈd͡ʒɪɹɪk/ · noun
A formal speech publicly praising someone or something..
My little Friend Grildrig, you have made a moſt admirable Panegyrick upon your Country: […]
Want of something else to say, and a very shady lane, disposed him to confidence; and he forthwith began a panegyric on himself, and on the good fortune of Miss Arundel, stating, he was now on his road to offer himself and his debts to her acceptance.
The painter's absurd fits of jealousy, his wild devotion, his extravagant panegyrics, his curious reticences—he understood them all now, and he felt sorry.
He then spoke in the usual boastful manner of his progenitors, added a flaming panegyric upon himself, and strolled down the road to repeat his speech at the next house.
Another manifestation, significantly reaching its apogee in the midst of Antonine virtues, was the growing popularity of adoxographical exercises. Mock panegyrics were dashed off, not just by sardonic intellectuals such as Lucian, but also by trained courtiers and polished encomiasts of the stamp of [Marcus Cornelius] Fronto.
Use panegyric when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Panegyric means A formal speech publicly praising someone or something..
Common synonyms include eulogy, complimentary, paean, panegyrical.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
My little Friend Grildrig, you have made a moſt admirable Panegyrick upon your Country: […]
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