PANEGYRIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does panegyric mean? 

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

1. a formal expression of praise

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

• PANEGYRIC (adjective)
  The adjective PANEGYRIC has 1 sense:

1. formally expressing praise

  Familiarity information: PANEGYRIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PANEGYRIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A formal expression of praise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

encomium; eulogy; paean; panegyric; pean

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

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

Derivation:

panegyric; panegyrical (formally expressing praise)

panegyrist (an orator who delivers eulogies or panegyrics)

• PANEGYRIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Formally expressing praise

Synonyms:

encomiastic; eulogistic; panegyric; panegyrical

Similar:

complimentary (conveying or resembling a compliment)

Derivation:

panegyric (a formal expression of praise)

 Context examples 

“You are a sea-officer of my own heart, Stone,” said he, when her ladyship had exhausted her panegyric.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Catherine assented—and a very warm panegyric from her on that lady's merits closed the subject.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

This naturally introduced a panegyric from Jane on his diffidence, and the little value he put on his own good qualities.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

After having made a few preparatory experiments, he concluded with a panegyric upon modern chemistry, the terms of which I shall never forget: The ancient teachers of this science, said he, promised impossibilities and performed nothing.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

His majesty, in another audience, was at the pains to recapitulate the sum of all I had spoken; compared the questions he made with the answers I had given; then taking me into his hands, and stroking me gently, delivered himself in these words, which I shall never forget, nor the manner he spoke them in: My little friend Grildrig, you have made a most admirable panegyric upon your country; you have clearly proved, that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator; that laws are best explained, interpreted, and applied, by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding, and eluding them.

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

When you told Mrs. Bennet this morning that if you ever resolved upon quitting Netherfield you should be gone in five minutes, you meant it to be a sort of panegyric, of compliment to yourself—and yet what is there so very laudable in a precipitance which must leave very necessary business undone, and can be of no real advantage to yourself or anyone else?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)