a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly (plural: encomia). as the adjective encomiastic, means bestowing praise, eulogistic, laudatory
a graduate student launched on an encomium of times past
these novels' lofty, encomiastic view of pure math
much of that criticism consisting in apologiae, encomiums
The prospect of living with her inspires pages of encomia on solitude
about Kafka's attitude towards his betrothed
PG's one-line encomium of RTM was as absolute as it was brief
Think of the encomia of European intellectuals like Sartre and Beauvoir to the great American writers who didn’t teach, didn’t go to school, but worked as truck drivers, bartenders, nightwatchmen, stevedores, anything but intellectuals
an authority for Winkler’s own encomium to those very conceptions
Nothing so gauche as an explicit defence of the Grandma Millie fantasy; only an encomium to the profits and practices of which it was exuberant expression.
there is the encomium to Iranian women for their buried labors
festooned with American flags and encomiums to Abraham Lincoln
I think it should be encomia but maybe that's just a colloquial version?
Encomia to these neoliberalizing achievements were the stuff of virtually all Argentina coverage in the English-language business press of the ’90s.
In the 1990s, encomiums to the Constitution were taken for granted.