panegyrist

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun panegyrist has 1 sense

panegyrist(n = noun.person) eulogist - an orator who delivers eulogies or panegyrics; Array

is a kind of orator, public speaker, rhetorician, speechifier, speechmaker

Derived form noun panegyric₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

panegyrist, n. [L. panegyrista, Gr. panhgyristh`s, one who attends a panh`gyris: cf. panhgyri`zein to celebrate or attend a public festival, to make a set speech, esp. a panegyric, in a public assembly. See Panegyric.].

One who delivers a panegyric; a eulogist; one who extols or praises, either by writing or speaking. [1913 Webster]

"If these panegyrists are in earnest." [1913 Webster]

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