Associations to the word «Encomium»
Noun
Adjective
Wiktionary
ENCOMIUM, noun. Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.
ENCOMIUM, noun. (rhetoric) A general category of oratory.
ENCOMIUM, noun. (rhetoric) A method within rhetorical pedagogy.
ENCOMIUM, noun. The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.
ENCOMIUM, noun. (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.
Dictionary definition
ENCOMIUM, noun. A formal expression of praise.
Wise words
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could
conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly
sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had
this power.