Both Uses of
encomium
in
Gulliver's Travels
- This great prince received me at my landing with all possible encomiums, and created me a nardac upon the spot, which is the highest title of honour among them.†
Chpt 1 *
- This speech was immediately published throughout the kingdom; nor did any thing terrify the people so much as those encomiums on his majesty's mercy; because it was observed, that the more these praises were enlarged and insisted on, the more inhuman was the punishment, and the sufferer more innocent.†
Chpt 1
Definition:
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(encomium) a formal expression of praise