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A panegyric is a speech or a piece of writing whose whole job is to praise someone or something, and to praise them a great deal. It is a rare, word. You meet it in ceremonies, old essays, and books about heroes, cities, or famous people — not in ordinary chat. A student would not say “I wrote a panegyric about my teacher”; they would say they said many kind things. Though actually, a panegyric is not the same as a : a is the praise we speak when someone has died, but a panegyric can be for the living, for a place, or even for an idea. These days, if you call a speech a panegyric, you may also be hinting that it is a little too sweet — all praise and no honest fault. The same word can sit in front of a noun: a panegyric poem, meaning a poem full of that kind of praise.
頌詞、讚頌文(極力稱讚的演說或文章;很文,口語很少這樣說)
組成English took it from French panégyrique, and French had it from Ancient Greek panēgurikós — a word for the kind of speech given at a big public festival, where the point is to praise.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
panegyricnoun/ˌpænəˈd͡ʒɪɹɪk/
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A formal speech publicly praising someone or something.
- My little Friend Grildrig, you have made a moſt admirable Panegyrick upon your Country: […]
- Want of something else to say, and a very shady lane, disposed him to confidence; and he forthwith began a panegyric on himself, and on the good fortune of Miss Arundel, stating, he was now on his road to offer himself and his debts to her acceptance.
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Someone who writes or delivers such a speech.
panegyricadj/ˌpænəˈd͡ʒɪɹɪk/
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panegyrical
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。