Encomium

For the Led Zeppelin tribute album released in 1995, see Encomium (album).
For the US ship that went aground in the Bahamas in 1834 and whose cargo of slaves were freed in Nassau, see Encomium (brig).

Encomium is a Latin word deriving from the Classical Greek ἐγκώμιον (enkomion) meaning "the praise of a person or thing."[1] Encomium also refers to several distinct aspects of rhetoric:

Examples

References

  1. ἐγκώμιον. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project
  2. David E. Garland, Baker Exegetical Commentary, 1 Corinthians, 606, based on the work of Sigountos.

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