encomium - use in sentences

Adjective modifier

  • paradoxical: In the paradoxical encomium, however, he demonstrates that before God wholly different standards apply.
  • high: A yet higher encomium by many of our ablest critics is pronounced upon " The Cenci.
  • ambivalent: Within Paul's argument the ambivalent encomium has a clear function.

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