PANEGYRICS Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

panegyrics

noun

plural of panegyric

as in tributes

a formal expression of praise wrote a panegyric on the centennial of the Nobel laureate's birth

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Noun

It was announced ahead of the game that one of the tributes to Parton — an orange butterfly decal with her name on it — would be on the back of every Volunteers player's helmet.

— Matt Reigle OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2026
Jackie died last month after a weeks-long battle with a mysterious illness, setting off a torrent of heart-wrenching tributes and messages from her devoted fans who hailed from around the globe.

— Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of tributes

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Some soldiers distinguished themselves by helping to render emergency trauma response and first aid to civilians, earning individual service commendations, according to the Arkansas National Guard.

— Neal Earley, Arkansas Online, 29 Aug. 2026
The novel earned commendations from authors such as Salman Rushdie and Amitav Ghosh.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 July 2026

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Today such grafts, whether visual or textual, would be called citations; at the time, a text made of excerpts was called a cento, which originally meant a patchwork rag.

— Mario Carpo, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
One recent study put the number of marketers actively tracking their brand's AI citations at 14%.

— Vaidotas Juknys, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of citations

Noun

The scholar of religion Friedrich Max Müller (1823–1900) noticed that many Vedic hymns praise different deities using the same superlatives and ascribe to them the same mythological feats.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026
Avie Lee filled the family's two-room home with music by singing hymns, folk songs and traditional mountain music.

— Devarrick Turner, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of hymns

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Every decade seems to yield a new crop of death knells and eulogies explaining why the form has reached the end of its useful life.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 July 2026
Would her child be buried in a separate part of the cemetery without the appropriate eulogies?

— Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026

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