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en-KO-mee-uhm
noun
any communication praising something or someone
1873The Parisians, Book 7 De Mauleon now approached Isaura, who was seated next to Valerie, and after well-merited encomium on Madame S———'s performance, slid into some critical comparisons between that singer and those of a former generation, which interested Isaura, and evinced to her quick perceptions that kind of love for music which has been refined by more knowledge of the art than is common to mere amateurs. 1974Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance The technique of identifying likenesses, the technique of praise, that of encomium and that of amplification.Labels: Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Robert M. Pirsig
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