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panegyric

Flattering speech or written expression of praise. In Roman times, a series of these, addressed to reigning emperors, were collected as the Panegyrici Latini. The first of these was by Pliny the Younger about Emperor Trajan. A literary example is the tribute paid to England in a speech by John of Gaunt in Shakespeare's Richard II.

The term ‘panegyric’ originally meant a festival speech, such as that in which Isocrates urged the Greeks to unite against Persia. The term then came to denote a public eulogy, such as the funeral oration of Pericles over the Athenians who fell in the first year of the Peloponnesian War.



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Now, sir, if we apply this to your modest aversion to panegyric, how reasonable will your fears of me appear!
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
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 Austen, Jane View in context
Gallon puffed at his cigar, and at the conclusion of the panegyric regarded the other curiously; but Daylight, ordering cocktails, failed to note this curious stare.
Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context
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