ENCOMIUM (encomia)

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected form: encomia   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does encomium mean? 

• ENCOMIUM (noun)
  The noun ENCOMIUM has 1 sense:

1. a formal expression of praise

  Familiarity information: ENCOMIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENCOMIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A formal expression of praise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

encomium; eulogy; paean; panegyric; pean

Hypernyms ("encomium" is a kind of...):

congratulations; extolment; kudos; praise (an expression of approval and commendation)

Derivation:

encomiastic (formally expressing praise)

 Context examples 

This great prince received me at my landing with all possible encomiums, and created me a nardac upon the spot, which is the highest title of honour among them.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

M. Krempe was not equally docile; and in my condition at that time, of almost insupportable sensitiveness, his harsh blunt encomiums gave me even more pain than the benevolent approbation of M. Waldman.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Mr. Micawber roused me from this reflection, which was blended with a certain remorseful apprehension of seeing Steerforth himself, by bestowing many encomiums on the absent Littimer as a most respectable fellow, and a thoroughly admirable servant.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This speech was immediately published throughout the kingdom; nor did any thing terrify the people so much as those encomiums on his majesty’s mercy; because it was observed, that the more these praises were enlarged and insisted on, the more inhuman was the punishment, and the sufferer more innocent.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)