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Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.

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A general category of oratory.

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A method within rhetorical pedagogy.

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The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.

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A genre of literature that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the person's life, comparisons used to praise the subject, and an epilogue.

Examples of encomium in a Sentence

The little that is known of him is to be found in his letters and the encomium by his pupil and successor Choricius.

Sir John Hoskyns was in the chair when Dr Vincent presented the manuscript, and passed a high encomium on the novelty and dignity of the subject.

In the paradoxical encomium, however, he demonstrates that before God wholly different standards apply.

The finest encomium was passed on him by the queen herself, when she said, "This judgment I have of you, that you will not be corrupted with any manner of gifts, and that you will be faithful to the state."

His extant works are - (i) a speech before Arcadius, De regno; (2) Dio, sive de suo ipsius instituto, in which he signifies his purpose to devote himself to true philosophy; (3) Encomium calvitii (he was himself bald), a literary jeu d'esprit, suggested by Dio Chrysostom's Praise of Hair; (4) De providentia, in two books; (5) De insomniis; (6) 157 Epistolae; (7) 12 Hymni, of a contemplative, Neoplatonic character; and several homilies and occasional speeches.

The Epistolae, which for the modern reader greatly exceed his other works in interest, have been edited by Demetriades (Vienna, 1792) and by Glukus (Venice, 1812), the Calvitii encomium by Krabinger (Stuttgart, 1834), the De providentia by Krabinger (Sulzbach, 1835), the De regno by Krabinger (Munich, 1825), and the Hymns by Flach (Tubingen, 1875).

The Moriae encomium was a sign of his decision.

Within Paul's argument the ambivalent encomium has a clear function.

A yet higher encomium by many of our ablest critics is pronounced upon " The Cenci.

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