(n.) Warm or high praise; panegyric; strong commendation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Robert Southey thought it entirely overrated and “by no means deserving of the encomiums which are passed upon it”.
(2) Hirsi Ali, for instance, was treated to a series of encomiums and softball questions in her blizzard of US media interviews, from the New York Times to Fox News.
(3) I told him I had several other reasons for my choice, but that I would add his encomium to the list.
(4) Appearing at the London Palladium during the 80s, she reportedly delivered an encomium of Margaret Thatcher, which was roundly booed by the audience.
(5) Of all the things he said, the encomiums on decency, social justice, duty - this was the most radical.
(6) But this encomium to creative fidelity surely shows Badiou to be a man out of his time.
(7) If that wasn't enough, David had to put up with being biffed with the tainted stick of praise, in the form of an encomium from Tony Blair.
(8) The author refrained on purpose from any analysis or interpretation, glorifying encomiums or accusations, because from the scientific point of view it is more important to place on record the many names, dates and above all the architectural structures of monuments before they get fallen into oblivion.
(9) Professor Chris Sinha Norwich • Ian Jack’s review of Boris Johnson ’s encomium on Winston Churchill (13 December) refers sceptically to the Goveian view which reduces history to the achievements of individuals.
(10) Quite an encomium for a former Labour cabinet minister from a former editor of the Spectator.
(11) It's not the most glowing of encomiums, all things considered, but he seems just about satisfied with this.
(12) Orban and Trump have established a mutual-admiration society, with the American retweeting the Magyar’s encomiums.
(13) Or how about an encomium meant to express the idealized, almost religious purity of Apple products?