panegyric

English

Alternative forms

• panegyrick (obsolete)
• panegyry (obsolete)

Etymology

From French panégyrique, from Ancient Greek πανηγυρικός (panēgurikós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpænəˈd͡ʒɪɹɪk/, /ˌpænəˈd͡ʒaɪɹɪk/

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Noun

panegyric (countable and uncountable, plural panegyrics)

1. A formal speech publicly praising someone or something.

   Synonym: eulogy

   • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Several Contrivances of the Author to Please the King and Queen. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page 267:

     My little Friend Grildrig, you have made a moſt admirable Panegyrick upon your Country: […]

   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 321–322:

     Want of something else to say, and a very shady lane, disposed him to confidence; and he forthwith began a panegyric on himself, and on the good fortune of Miss Arundel, stating, he was now on his road to offer himself and his debts to her acceptance.

   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter IX, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 174:

     The painter's absurd fits of jealousy, his wild devotion, his extravagant panegyrics, his curious reticences—he understood them all now, and he felt sorry.

   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 197:

     He then spoke in the usual boastful manner of his progenitors, added a flaming panegyric upon himself, and strolled down the road to repeat his speech at the next house.

   • 1979, Carl Deroux, editor, Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History (Collection Latomus; 164), volume 1, Brussels: Latomus, →OCLC, page 111:

     Another manifestation, significantly reaching its apogee in the midst of Antonine virtues, was the growing popularity of adoxographical exercises. Mock panegyrics were dashed off, not just by sardonic intellectuals such as Lucian, but also by trained courtiers and polished encomiasts of the stamp of [Marcus Cornelius] Fronto.

2. Someone who writes or delivers such a speech.

Derived terms

• panegyrical
• panegyrically

Translations

formal speech or opus publicly praising someone or something

• Bulgarian: панегирик m (panegirik), хвалебствие (bg) n (hvalebstvie)
• Catalan: panegíric (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 頌詞／颂词 (zh) (sòngcí)

• Danish: lovtale
• Dutch: lofzang (nl) f, lofrede (nl) f
• Finnish: ylistys (fi)
• French: panégyrique (fr) m
• Galician: panexírico (gl)
• German: Lobrede (de) f, Panegyrik (de) f, Laudatio (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: πανηγυρικός m (panēgurikós)

• Hausa: yabo (ha)
• Icelandic: lofgerð f, (praise in speech) lof í ræðu n, (praise in writing) lof í riti n, (praise in poetry) lofkvæði n
• Irish: adhmholadh m, formholadh m, moladh m
• Italian: panegirico (it) m
• Japanese: 賛辞 (ja) (さんじ, sanji)
• Macedonian: по́хвала f (póhvala), панеги́рик m (panegírik), славо́појка f (slavópojka)
• Norwegian: lovprising m, lovtale m
• Old Norse: hróðr
• Persian: مدیحه (fa) (madihe)
• Portuguese: panegírico (pt) m
• Russian: панеги́рик (ru) m (panegírik)
• Serbo-Croatian: hvalospjev (sh) m
• Spanish: panegírico (es)

Adjective

panegyric (comparative more panegyric, superlative most panegyric)

1. panegyrical