Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
| Käännös | |
|---|---|
| Substantiivit | |
| 1. | encomio {m} |
Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.
- (rhetoric) A general category of oratory.
- (rhetoric) A method within rhetorical pedagogy.
- The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.
- (literature) A genre of literature that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the person's life, comparisons used to praise the subject, and an epilogue.
Esimerkit
- I rejoined our people, and expected a reprimand for having forced the enemy without orders; though I had my excuse ready. But here I was mistaken; for I met with nothing but encomiums. —
- "I never seen their like," was Lassiter's encomium, "an' in my day I've seen a sight of horses.
- I am, you will agree, mature, and in my earlier days I won no little praise for my skill at hunt-the-slipper. I remember one of the hostesses whose Christmas parties I attended comparing me to a juvenile bloodhound. An extravagant encomium, of course, but that is what she said.
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | encomiums |
| Monikko | encomia |