encomium

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.

   “I rejoined our people, and expected a reprimand for having forced the enemy without orders; though I had my excuse ready. But here I was mistaken; for I met with nothing but encomiums.”

2. isim A general category of oratory.
3. isim A method within rhetorical pedagogy.
4. isim The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.
5. isim A genre of literature that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the person's life, comparisons used to praise the subject, and an epilogue.