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Encomiastic

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en·co·mi·ast  (n-km-st, -st)
n.
A person who delivers or writes an encomium; a eulogist.
[Greek enkmiasts, from enkmiazein, to praise, from enkmion, encomium; see encomium.]
en·comi·astic (-stk), en·comi·asti·cal (-t-kl) adj.
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Adj.1.encomiastic - formally expressing praise
eulogistic, panegyric, panegyrical
complimentary - conveying or resembling a compliment; "a complimentary remark"
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Other contemporary sources include the diary of Paul Freart de Chantelou, who recorded Bernini's 1665 trip to Paris in minute anecdotal detail, and various encomiastic essays written during the artist's lifetime or on the occasion of his death.
Bernini's Biographies: Critical Essays by Triff, Kristin A. / Renaissance Quarterly
In an era where literary production was fueled by a patronage system requiring an encomiastic rhetoric that left little room for authorial self-assertion, the fact that Lemaire successfully points the reader to his own personal concerns seems particularly noteworthy.
Poetic self-assertion in Jean Lemaire de Belges's 1506 "Les Regretz ... by Eubanks, Peter / Romance Notes
9; 17) gives the names of two individuals whose virtues he himself extolled in encomiastic speeches at the conclusion of their terms: Sex.
Apuleius and Carthage by Bradley, Keith / Ancient Narrative
 
 
 
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