ENCOMIUM meaning: Praise expressed in formal speech

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word encomium:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

encomium: Merriam-Webster.com
encomium: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
encomium: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
encomium: Collins English Dictionary
encomium: Vocabulary.com
Encomium, encomium: Wordnik
encomium: Wiktionary
encomium: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
encomium: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
encomium: Infoplease Dictionary
encomium: Dictionary.com
encomium: Online Etymology Dictionary
Encomium (album), Encomium: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Encomium: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
encomium: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
encomium: Rhymezone
Encomium: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
encomium: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Encomium: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
encomium: Free Dictionary
encomium: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
encomium: Mnemonic Dictionary
encomium: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
encomium: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)

Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
ENCOMIUM: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)

encomium: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

encomium: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

encomium: A Word A Day
encomium: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ 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.

Opposite:

denunciation, denigration, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory

Types:

eulogy, panegyric, homage, tribute, more...

Phrases:

opposite of encomium, encomium do, more...

Adjectives:

high, such, mock, warm, paradoxical, long, general, splendid, extravagant, enthusiastic, famous

Colors:

gold, silver, bronze, emerald, sapphire, ruby, amethyst, topaz, pearl, ivory

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