Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who pronounces a eulogy; one who praises highly or excessively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who eulogizes or praises; panegyrist; encomiast.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
speaker who delivers afuneral oration (eulogy ) for adeceased person. - noun A person who
praises another person or thing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an orator who delivers eulogies or panegyrics
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Examples
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Wanted ASAP: eulogist for former leader of a political party.
Wanted 2009
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One important twist that I should have mentioned above was that the orator/eulogist also sort of murdered them.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Name That Superhero Funeral! 2010
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If there is even a suspicion of truth in tributes which have, to the last eulogist, declared the sublime, apple-tumescing appeal of a plump, lustful, self-destructive alcoholic, whose excesses make top femme fatale Angelina Jolie look like a much tattooed Milly-Molly-Mandy, you have to wonder if blanched, gristly diet victims along Renée Zellweger's lines really represent any kind of shared ideal.
The strange case of Liz Taylor as a 'real woman' role model | Catherine Bennett 2011
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Wanted ASAP: eulogist for former leader of a political party.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Over 20 minutes and 973 words with just the right pauses in just the right places, the king of the Tri-fold brochure became a professional eulogist.
Writing Workshop: What are YOU writing? | Write to Done 2009
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On his death in 1941 a Senate eulogist said the end of Prohibition had been “the one great disappointment and abiding sorrow” of his life.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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When Tiger Woods walked through the dark velvet curtains at his news conference in Florida Friday, he looked more like a eulogist in shock about to address a family funeral than a superstar athlete facing a global television audience.
'Character and Decency Are What Count' John Paul Newport 2010
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On his death in 1941 a Senate eulogist said the end of Prohibition had been “the one great disappointment and abiding sorrow” of his life.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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On November 10, writers Peter Baker and Clifford Krauss headlined, "President, at Service, Hails Fort Hood's Fallen (in assuming) the role of national eulogist (and leading) the country in mourning ...."
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President Obama took on the role of national eulogist on Tuesday for the first time since assuming office as he led the country in mourning 13 active and retired soldiers gunned down not on a foreign battlefield but here on their home post by one of their own.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: President, at Service, Hails Fort Hood's Fallen 2009
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