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Meanings of encomiastic in inglés

Formally expressing praise.

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        1
        Thus Donne shows his medicinal knowledge in some encomiastic verses:
        Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley
        2
        At the publication the wits seemed proud to pay their attendance with encomiastic verses.
        Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1
        3
        To this pamphlet, Governor Hamilton had prefixed "an encomiastic advertisement."]
        Rise of the New West, 1819-1829
        4
        In rhetoric, they say the first part was demonstrative or encomiastic, the second deliberative, the third judicial.
        Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
        5
        He published, soon afterwards, a volume of poems, with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron, the Earl of Dorset.
        Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope
        6
        Of the verses on Oliver's death, in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something encomiastic, there has been no appearance.
        Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley
        7
        This little book contains an account of the trial of Richard II., and was dedicated to the Earl of Essex in very encomiastic terms.
        Bacon is Shake-Speare / Together with a Reprint of Bacon's Promu...
        8
        His works were published in 1651, and to them were prefixed fifty copies of encomiastic verses from the wits and poets of the time.
        Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 1
        9
        It may be remarked, that in this elegy, and in most of his encomiastic poems, he has forgotten or neglected to name his heroes.
        Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley
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