different between laudatory vs panegyric

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin laudatorius: compare Old French laudatoire.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l??d?t?i/

Adjective

laudatory (comparative more laudatory, superlative most laudatory)

1. Of or pertaining to praise, or the expression of praise.

   laudatory verses

   • 1853, Sir James Stephen, "On Desultory and Systematic Reading"

     The comparison of these two passages will probably have suggested to you the fact of the immense superiority of the satirical over the laudatory powers of Dryden.

Translations

Related terms

• laudatories

Anagrams

• adulatory

English

Alternative forms

• panegyrick (obsolete)
• panegyry (obsolete)

Etymology

From French panégyrique, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (pan?gurikós), from ???- (pan-) "all" + agyris "place of assembly", Aeolic form of ????? (agorá)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæn??d?????k/, /?pæn??d??a???k/

Noun

panegyric (countable and uncountable, plural panegyrics)

1. A formal speech or opus publicly praising someone or something.

   Synonym: eulogy

   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 197):

     He then spoke in the usual boastful manner of his progenitors, added a flaming panegyric upon himself, and strolled down the road to repeat his speech at the next house.
2. Someone who writes or delivers such a speech.

Derived terms

• panegyrical
• panegyrically

Translations

Adjective

panegyric (comparative more panegyric, superlative most panegyric)

1. panegyrical