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Definition of the day : « encomiastic »

  • As in laudatory : adj complimentary
  • As in complimentary : adj flattering
Example sentences :
  • They have been encomiastic even in regard to her voice and her manner of singing.
  • Extract from : « The Merry-Go-Round » by Carl Van Vechten
  • At the publication the wits seemed proud to pay their attendance with encomiastic verses.
  • Extract from : « Lives of the Poets: Addison, Savage, and Swift » by Samuel Johnson
  • Musurus boasts in his encomiastic verses that the work was accomplished entirely by Cretans.
  • Extract from : « Renaissance in Italy, Volume 2 (of 7) » by John Addington Symonds
  • Her personal charms fully merited the encomiastic strains of the following epistle.
  • Extract from : « The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 11 » by John Dryden
  • In rhetoric, they say the first part was demonstrative or encomiastic, the second deliberative, the third judicial.
  • Extract from : « Essays and Miscellanies » by Plutarch
  • Mathias was fascinated with it, and printed it privately with an encomiastic criticism.
  • Extract from : « Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume II (of 3) » by Thomas Percy
  • Both are encomiastic, and describe the character and work of the deceased with considerable fulness and beauty of expression.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 » by Various
  • It may be remarked, that in this elegy, and in most of his encomiastic poems, he has forgotten or neglected to name his heroes.
  • Extract from : « Lives of the English Poets: Waller, Milton, Cowley » by Samuel Johnson