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[ verb ] praise formally and eloquently

Synonyms

eulogise

Examples

"The dead woman was eulogized at the funeral"

Used in print

(The Washington Post...)

They came together in the huge , high-ceilinged Council_Chamber to hear the late leader eulogized .

(Frank Murphy, "New Southern Fiction: Urban or Ag...)

Those writers known collectively as the `` Southern school '' have received accolades from even those critics least prone to eulogize ; according to many critics , in_fact , the South has led the North in literature since the Civil_War , both quantitatively and qualitatively .

Related terms

praise encomium

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