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English
Etymology
From eulogy + -istic.
Adjective
eulogistic (comparative more eulogistic, superlative most eulogistic)
- Conveying praise or admiration, as in a eulogy.
1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire , 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J B Lippincott Company, published 1896, →OCLC, page 8:But on one fatal occasion I happened to change my tactics and warmly praised a work my eulogistic review of the hated individual, unfortunately for me, appeared, with the result that private spite outweighed public justice and I was immediately dismissed.
1925 July – 1926 May, A Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:He writhed for twenty minutes under the flowery and eulogistic periods of the president, and rose himself in the state of confused indignation which the Briton feels when he is publicly approved.
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