different between panegyrically vs panegyric

English

Etymology

From panegyrical +? -ly.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pan??d????kli/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pæn??d????k(?)li/

Adverb

panegyrically (comparative more panegyrically, superlative most panegyrically)

1. In a very eloquent and eulogistic manner; with lavish praise, in a very complimentary way.
   • 1813 January, Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths, The Monthly Review:

     There are turns of style, by means of which any qualities can be described panegyrically.

   • 1991, Stephen Lessing Baehr, The Paradise Myth in Eighteenth-Century Russia: Utopian Patterns in Early Secular Russian Literature and Culture:

     History, which Lomonosov called "the art by which Greek and Roman writers gave glory to their heroes," often functioned teleologically or panegyrically and gave many mid-century Russians an opportunity to proclaim the "glory" of their empire.

Translations

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