Meanings
plural paneulogisms
- uncountableusuallyeulogy of everything; indiscriminate praise
With all its excellencies, and they are many, her book has a trace of the cant of paneulogism.
1857, The National Review, volume 5, page 1301 more example
Owing to, or, at least, in conjunction with, the retrospective tendencies of the age, Paneulogism is become one of the most prominent vices of criticism.
1860, Arthur Lloyd Windsor, Ethica; or, Characteristics of Men, Manners, and Books, page 285
Origin
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