Examples of 'encomium' in a sentence
Meaning of "encomium"
encomium (noun) - Means a formal speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly, often used in literature or rhetoric
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- Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.
- A general category of oratory.
- A method within rhetorical pedagogy.
- The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.
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The longest poem is an encomium on the spider.
The Encomium divides into three books.
Let her mouth be an encrypted encomium.
You can not be expecting an encomium before things have been concluded.
It is this tradition which Gorgias confronts in the Encomium.
Expressions of encomium in use in the East were added.
Epinikion and encomium.
As such, the Encomium is a heavily biased and selective work.
It was at this court that the Encomium Emmae was written.
Moriae Encomium was hugely popular, to Erasmus ' astonishment and sometimes his dismay.
The harbour was attested in an encomium of Emperor John VIII r.
Some subsequent scholarship also classes The Ruin as an Old English encomium urbis.
The Encomium stays silent on an event reported by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and other sources.
But to be even among these of note, just consider what a great encomium this is!
Even Xenophon 's encomium of the Constitution of the Lacedaemonians is not unalloyed praise.
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Alcibiades crashes in, terribly drunk, and delivers an encomium to Socrates himself.
John and Cyrus is the encomium written by Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem d.
Cantor 's work also attracted favorable notice beyond Hilbert 's celebrated encomium.
Mr. Winkle stayed not to hear the encomium upon his friend.
And, an encomium to our kagan Vlodimer, by whom we were baptized.
And this is exactly the purpose of Gorgias ' Encomium of Helen.
Encomium enough in what I've left.
After Mass a Dominican student or invited speaker recites an encomium in honor of St. Thomas.
Encomium Emmae, a biography of Queen Emma of Normandy, is completed.
Cult novelist gets confused by the encomium " genre-bender.
Students used encomium to praise persons, things, times, places, animals, and growing things.
The colophon is typical of the times, containing a long encomium to Isma'il Pasha, Egypt 's ruler.
The handsomest encomium for such creatures is, “ They do not make trouble . ”.
It 's a long, wild, passionate encomium to Henry.
And he wrote one piece in prose, Encomium in S. Anastasium martyrem.
Prior to May 2008 only one copy of the Encomium was believed to exist.
