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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.
And yet, it also reminds us, by an act of allusive metalepsis, just how distant and untenable that kind of encomium has become.
They need no encomium of mine, but I am prepared to stand by them to the last ditch.
The security is insufficient, and the encomium belongs to Constantinople.
An apple so well known, as to require neither description nor encomium.
And applying his black beard to the pitcher, he took a draught much more moderate in quantity than his encomium seemed to warrant.

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