Definizione monolingua

encomium

encomium (plural encomiums or encomia)

1. Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.
   • 1763, I rejoined our people, and expected a reprimand for having forced the enemy without orders; though I had my excuse ready. But here I was mistaken; for I met with nothing but encomiums. — Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana (1763 tr. of LHistoire de la Louisiane, 1758) (PG), p. 39
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X:

     I am, you will agree, mature, and in my earlier days I won no little praise for my skill at hunt-the-slipper. I remember one of the hostesses whose Christmas parties I attended comparing me to a juvenile bloodhound. An extravagant encomium, of course, but that is what she said.

2. (rhetoric) A general category of oratory.
3. (rhetoric) A method within rhetorical pedagogy.
4. The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.
5. (literature) A genre of literature that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the persons life, comparisons used to praise the subject, and an epilogue.

Definizione dizionario encomium

elogio

encomio

Altri significati:

The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.

(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.

(rhetoric) A method within rhetorical pedagogy.

(rhetoric) A general category of oratory.

Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.

tribute