panegyrical

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adjective

Lavish with praise; admiring, approving, complimentary.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

adjectivepanegyrical (comparative more panegyrical, superlative most panegyrical)

comparative more panegyrical · superlative most panegyrical

  1. Lavish with praise; admiring, approving, complimentary.

    The days of description (personal and panegyrical) are passing rapidly away.

    1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 167
    2 more examples

    Let us (ſaith he [Gregory of Nazianzus]) celebrate this feaſt, not in a panegyrical but divine, not in a vvorldly but ſuperſecular manner; not regarding ſo much our ſelves or ours, as the vvorſhip of Chriſt, &c.

    a. 1657, Joseph Hall, “A Letter for the Observation of the Feast of Christ’s Nativity”, in The Shaking of the Olive-Tree. The Remaining Works of that Incomparable Prelate Joseph Hall, D.D. […], London: […] J. Cadwel for J[ohn] Crooke, […], published 1660, →OCLC, page 302

    Birmingham, indeed, has recently been styled "the best governed city in the world"--a title that is, perhaps, a trifle too full and panegyrical to find ready and general acceptance.

    1900, Thomas Anderton, A Tale of One City: The New Birmingham

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveformally expressing praise

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Bulgarian хвалебствян
  • хвалебствян (hvalebstvjan)lavish with praise
Danish panegyrisk
  • panegyrisklavish with praise
Finnish ylistävä
  • ylistävälavish with praise
German panegyrisch
  • panegyrischlavish with praise
Norwegian panegyrisk
  • panegyrisklavish with praise
Portuguese panegírico
  • panegíricolavish with praise
Spanish panegírico
  • panegíricolavish with praise
Swedish panegyrisk
  • panegyrisklavish with praise
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