encomiast

[ en-koh-mee-ast, -uh st ]

/ ɛnˈkoʊ miˌæst, -əst /

a person who utters or writes an encomium; eulogist.

Origin of encomiast

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

en·co·mi·as·tic, adjective en·co·mi·as·ti·cal·ly, adverb

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

Canute the Great |Laurence Marcellus Larson
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.

Literary Remains (1) |Coleridge
She was evidently beautiful, gifted, and attractive: her flattering Encomiast describes her as of great beauty and wisdom.

Canute the Great |Laurence Marcellus Larson
What this encomiast says in a rhetorical tone was literally true.

The Caesars |Thomas de Quincey

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

Canute the Great |Laurence Marcellus Larson

encomiast

/ (ɛnˈkəʊmɪˌæst) /

a person who speaks or writes an encomium

encomiastic or encomiastical, adjective encomiastically, adverb

C17: from Greek enkōmiastēs, from enkōmiazein to utter an encomium