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Synonyms for panegyrical
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : pan-i-jir-ik, -jahy-rik |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌpæn ɪˈdʒɪr ɪk, -ˈdʒaɪ rɪk |
Top 10 synonyms for panegyrical Other synonyms for the word panegyrical
- acclamatory
- adulatory
- approbative
- approbatory
- approving
- ardent
- avid
- celebrating
- commendatory
- complimentary
- courtly
- desirous
- ecstatic
- encomiastic
- encomiastical
- eulogistic
- fair-spoken
- fawning
- fervent
- fervid
- fierce
- flattering
- heated
- highly favorable
- honeyed
- honoring
- hot-blooded
- impassioned
- keen
- laudative
- laudatory
- panegyrical
- passionate
- plauditory
- praiseful
- rave
- sycophantic
- unctuous
- well-wishing
- with high praise
- with highest recommendation
- zealous
Définition of panegyrical
Origin :- "eulogy, laudation," c.1600, from French panégyrique (1510s), from Latin panegyricus "public eulogy," originally an adjective, "for a public festival," from Greek panegyrikos (logos) "(a speech) given in a public assembly," from panegyris "public assembly (especially in honor of a god)," from pan- "all" (see pan-) + agyris "place of assembly," Aeolic form of agora (see agora).
- As in laudatory : adj complimentary
- As in complimentary : adj flattering
- As in glowing : adj very happy, enthusiastic
- So now she filled a whole page of her diary with panegyrical regrets.
- Extract from : « Queen Victoria » by Lytton Strachey
- Some panegyrical, directly contrary to the former; many of which we have in Martial upon the Emperor Domitian, and in others.
- Extract from : « Lectures on Poetry » by Joseph Trapp
- We have studiously avoided portraying fashionable life according to the vulgar notions, whether depreciatory or panegyrical.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXVIII. February, 1843. Vol. LIII. » by Various
- Even Jefferson's most panegyrical biographer declares Marshall to have been "an earnest and sincere man."
- Extract from : « The Life of John Marshall (Volume 2 of 4) » by Albert J. Beveridge
- He is perhaps weakest, like all poets with the signal exception of Dryden, when he is panegyrical.
- Extract from : « A Short History of French Literature » by George Saintsbury
- A fuller report of the above speech is given at f. 108, some panegyrical verses at ff.
- Extract from : « The Lyon in Mourning, Vol. 1 » by Robert Forbes
- There is no panegyrical emphasis, no calumnious innuendo, in his sketches.
- Extract from : « Renaissance in Italy, Volume 2 (of 7) » by John Addington Symonds
- The official history of this period is rendered almost worthless by its sustained note of panegyrical laudation.
- Extract from : « Renaissance in Italy, Volume 2 (of 7) » by John Addington Symonds
- It is rather satirical than panegyrical in character, and its poetical worth is very far from high.
- Extract from : « A History of English Literature » by George Saintsbury
- But in these panegyrical orations, they oftimes rather exceed than excel.
- Extract from : « Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) » by John Howie
Antonyms for panegyrical
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