Definitions for encomiast

encomiast en·co·mi·ast

Spelling: [en-koh-mee-ast, -uh st]
IPA: /ɛnˈkoʊ miˌæst, -əst/

Encomiast is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 912 anagrams from letters in encomiast (aceimnost).

Definitions for encomiast

noun

  1. a person who utters or writes an encomium; eulogist.

Origin of encomiast

1600-10; Greek enkōmiast(ḗs), equivalent to enkōmi(on) encomi(um) + -ast

Examples for encomiast

Sherstone, says the encomiast, gained for Thurkil a large share of the fatherland.

She was evidently beautiful, gifted, and attractive: her flattering encomiast describes her as of great beauty and wisdom.

What this encomiast says in a rhetorical tone was literally true.

A man of genius may securely laugh at a mode of attack by which his reviler, in half a century or less, becomes his encomiast.

Again the encomiast seizes the opportunity to describe a Northern fleet.

It is one of those few subjects on which an encomiast may expatiate without deviating from the truth.

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