Our Saviour himself becomes both her advocate and encomiast.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference

Noting that Caesar faced mutinies, Griffin dismisses me as an "overoptimistic encomiast" of the legionaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [O Mighty Caesar!] Reference

In fairness, should not Griffin have noted that an unreserved encomiast of Caesar's Gallic victories was Griffin's favorite, Cicero?.    From Wordnik.com.  [O Mighty Caesar!] Reference

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 to the bland, formulaic language of praise.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Praise of Dispraise] Reference

From The Atlantic's Fiction Issue: Imbued with the righteous moral fervor of a revolutionary, the negativist -to introduce a new literary type- is more pesuasive than the encomiast, who tends to resort to the bland formulaic language of praise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Take THAT Mr McSweegee] Reference

The encomiast after his manner appears to treat them as one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agesilaus] Reference

What this encomiast says in a rhetorical tone was literally true.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Caesars] Reference

She needs no encomiast, star-crowned she stands, the glory of America, the admiration of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12] Reference

Friendship, that theme of the encomiast, is neither more nor less, you will find, than the beginning of sponging.    From Wordnik.com.  [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03] Reference

In his dedication to Dr. Wilkins, he appears a very willing and liberal encomiast, both of the living and the dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Poets, Volume 1] Reference

Yet sometimes the patron may claim indulgence; for it does not always happen, that the encomiast has been much encouraged to his attempt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II] Reference

Liberty called in vain upon her votaries to read her praises and reward her encomiast: her praises were condemned to harbour spiders, and to gather dust; none of Thomson's performances were so little regarded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II] Reference

Liberty called in vain upon her votaries to read her praises, and reward her encomiast: her praises were condemned to harbour spiders, and to gather dust: none of Thomson's performances were so little regarded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2] Reference

To charge all unmerited praise with the guilt of flattery, and to suppose that the encomiast always knows and feels the falsehoods of his assertions, is surely to discover great ignorance of human nature and human life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2] Reference

To charge all unmerited praise with the guilt of flattery, and to suppose that the encomiast always knows and feels the falsehoods of his assertions, is, surely, to discover great ignorance of human nature and human life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Poets, Volume 1] Reference

Pericles, the master of Demosthenes, the equal of the one in military science, and of the other not the inferior in civil and forensic; the calm dispassionate judge of the general by whom he was defeated, his defender, his encomiast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection] Reference

“De Agesilao libello”), p. 263, for other discrepancies between the historian and the encomiast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agesilaus] Reference

He is admired not as an uncritical encomiast of his own culture and society, but rather as an exemplum of the spirit — both critical and conservative — that is among the West’s most enduring legacies to the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canonical Writers] Reference

"Though I doubt if this drivelling encomiast of War.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry] Reference

"De Agesilao libello"), p. 263, for other discrepancies between the historian and the encomiast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agesilaus] Reference

"Truly! it surprises me that some one does not spring up, and, though others hesitate, extol my plan, explain its advantages, and spare me the pain of being my own encomiast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life] Reference

Among other favourable testimonies of the author’s disposition, we remark his lively gratitude to Mr. Lofft, who had the merit of drawing him from obscurity, and still continues his encomiast, at the close of each Poem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review of 'Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs'] Reference

"To charge all unmerited praise with the guilt of flattery, or to suppose that the encomiast always knows and feels the falsehoods of his assertions, is surely to discover great ignorance of human nature and of human life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samuel Johnson] Reference

“To charge all unmerited praise with the guilt of flattery, or to suppose that the encomiast always knows and feels the falsehoods of his assertions, is surely to discover great ignorance of human nature and of human life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samuel Johnson]

Though I doubt if this drivelling encomiast of.    From Wordnik.com.  ["The Devil's Drive"] Reference

Dear M----, that each trite encomiast sings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays] Reference

15) the encomiast prefers the poetical masteuoi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agesilaus] Reference