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What does encomium mean?

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Noun
  1. Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.
  2. (rhetoric) A general category of oratory.
  3. (rhetoric) A method within rhetorical pedagogy.
  4. The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.
  5. (literature) 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.
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This encomium of praise for the liberating Romans was soon replaced by a rather different view in mainstream Judean opinion.
I can not pass this Godly man by without an encomium to his memory.
And applying his black beard to the pitcher, he took a draught much more moderate in quantity than his encomium seemed to warrant.
All these premises represent an inversion of the traditional modes of absolutist encomium.
One knows not which to admire most, the beauty of the poetry or the justice of the encomium.
The security is insufficient, and the encomium belongs to Constantinople.

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