panegyrist

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who composes or delivers a panegyric, praising someone or something formally and often extravagantly

   The court panegyrist celebrated the ruler's victories while passing over every failure.

Formed from panegyric + -ist. Panegyric comes through Latin panegyricus from Greek panegyrikos ("of a public assembly or festival"), based on panegyris ("general assembly"). Speeches at such gatherings produced the later sense of elaborate public praise.

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