Usually means: Praises, often in formal speech.
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  1. encomiums: Merriam-Webster
  2. encomiums: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. encomiums: Collins English Dictionary
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  8. Encomiums: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Encomiums: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Encomiums: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. encomiums: FreeDictionary.org
  12. encomiums: TheFreeDictionary.com

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(Note: See encomium as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (encomium)

noun:  Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.
noun:  (rhetoric) A general category of oratory.
noun:  (rhetoric) A method within rhetorical pedagogy.
noun:  The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.
noun:  (literature) 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.
▸ Also see encomium


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