Both Uses of
eulogy
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Eulogy in a country churchyard it ought to be that poem of whose is it Wordsworth or Thomas Campbell.†
Chpt 6 *eulogy = formal expression of praise -- typically speeches delivered at someone's funeral
- His project meanwhile was very favourably entertained by his auditors and won hearty eulogies from all though Mr Dixon of Mary's excepted to it, asking with a finicking air did he purpose also to carry coals to Newcastle.†
Chpt 14eulogies = formal expressions of praise -- typically speeches delivered at someone's funeral
Definition:
a formal expression of praise -- typically a speech given at someone's funeral
A eulogy almost always refers to someone who has recently died, but it is also used under other circumstances. A related word, eulogize (to speak or write a eulogy praising someone or something), may be even more commonly used in non-death circumstances than in circumstances of death.