Definitions for encomium

encomium en·co·mi·um

Spelling: [en-koh-mee-uh m]
IPA: /ɛnˈkoʊ mi əm/

Encomium is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 162 anagrams from letters in encomium (ceimmnou).

Definitions for encomium

noun

  1. a formal expression of high praise; eulogy:

Origin of encomium

1580-90; Latin Greek enkṓmion, equivalent to en- en-2 + kôm(os) a revel + -ion noun suffix

Examples for encomium

To Sir Felix an encomium from a fair lady was ever irresistible.

I can not pass this Godly man by without an encomium to his memory.

I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none.

They need no encomium of mine, but I am prepared to stand by them to the last ditch.

One knows not which to admire most, the beauty of the poetry or the justice of the encomium.

I think he stopped earning that encomium in about the summer of 2000.

The security is insufficient, and the encomium belongs to Constantinople.

The country knows, by this time, that we cannot repeat the encomium.

“She looks it,” said Stonor, with a sidelong glance at the object of her encomium.

An apple so well known, as to require neither description nor encomium.

Word Value for encomium
Scrable

14

Words with friends

19

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