verb
- to praise someone or something enthusiastically and at length; to deliver or write a panegyric about
Usage: transitive verb; formal or literary
Examples
- The speaker panegyrized the retiring professor for her decades of dedicated service.
- Critics panegyrized the film as a masterpiece of modern cinema.
- He was known for panegyrizing his favorite authors in every interview.
- The biography panegyrizes the historical figure without acknowledging his flaws.
- She panegyrized her mentor's contributions to the field of medicine.
- The newspaper panegyrized the local hero's charitable work.