Eloge

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An expression of praise. obsolete
  2. 2
    A statement or disquisition in praise of someone who has died.

    "In a later éloge, Georges Cuvier called it, with pardonable exaggeration, ‘in some respects the last words of a dying Plato’."

  3. 3
    Specifically, the statement made by a new member of the French Academy about his predecessor.

Synonyms

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accoladeadulationapotheosiscongratulationdeificationeulogy

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"In a later éloge, Georges Cuvier called it, with pardonable exaggeration, ‘in some respects the last words of a dying Plato’."

Etymology

From French éloge, from Latin ēlogium. Doublet of elogy.

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french academy

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