Panegyric Definition

pănə-jĭrĭk, -jīrĭk
noun
A formal eulogistic composition intended as a public compliment.
American Heritage
A formal speech or piece of writing praising a person or event.
Webster's New World
High or hyperbolic praise; laudation.
Webster's New World

A formal speech or opus publicly praising someone or something.

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Noun

Singular:
panegyric
Plural:
panegyrics

Origin of Panegyric

  • Latin panēgyricus from Greek panēgurikos (logos) (speech) at a public assembly, panegyric from panēguris public assembly pan- pan- aguris assembly, marketplace ger- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Ancient Greek πανηγυρικός (panêgyrikós)

    From Wiktionary

Panegyric Sentence Examples

  • Rousseau, a fervid panegyric showing a good deal of talent but no power of criticism.

  • Of the former, his panegyric on the emperor Anastasius alone is extant; the description of the church of St Sophia and the monody on its partial destruction by an earthquake are spurious.

  • On that day, he tells us, while his sons occupied the curule chairs in the senate-house, he himself had the honour of pronouncing a panegyric on the monarch.

  • The Romans confined the panegyric to the living, and reserved the funeral oration exclusively for the dead.

  • Rousseau, who was jealously sparing of his praises, addressed to him, in his Nouvelle Heloise, a fine panegyric; and when a stranger flatteringly told Voltaire he had come to see a great man, the philosopher asked him if he had seen Abauzit.

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