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- verb Present participle of
panegyrize .
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Examples
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He began panegyrizing 'Uncle Tom,' and this led to a discussion of the ground of its unprecedented success.
The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Stowe, Charles Edward 1889
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He began panegyrizing 'Uncle Tom,' and this led to a discussion of the ground of its unprecedented success.
Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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He talked indeed largely of preserving a middle course, [114] but he was continually vacillating from one to the other extreme; always too confident or too dejected; incorrigibly vain of success, yet meanly panegyrizing the government of an usurper.
Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity John Henry Newman 1845
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Charles Walpole’s fortune, had too much good sense and refinement to pour her wounded feelings into the bosom of a stranger; she spoke of her mother-in-law in terms of guarded praise, panegyrizing her accomplishments, and though she was silent concerning the qualities of the heart, doing ample justice to those of the head.
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