Usage examples (27)

• Our Saviour himself becomes both her advocate and encomiast.
• Noting that Caesar faced mutinies, Griffin dismisses me as an "overoptimistic encomiast" of the legionaries.
• In fairness, should not Griffin have noted that an unreserved encomiast of Caesar's Gallic victories was Griffin's favorite, Cicero?
• Imbued with the righteous moral fervor of a revolutionary, the negativist — to introduce a new literary type — is more persuasive than the encomiast, who tends to resort...