Usually means: Praises, often formal and elaborate.
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  1. encomia: Merriam-Webster
  2. encomia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. encomia: Collins English Dictionary
  4. encomia: Vocabulary.com
  5. Encomia, encomia: Wordnik
  6. encomia: Wiktionary
  7. encomia: Dictionary.com
  8. Encomia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. encomia: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. encomia: Legal dictionary

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  1. encomia: Encyclopedia

(Note: See encomium as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (encomium)

noun:  Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.
noun:  (rhetoric) A general category of oratory.
noun:  (rhetoric) A method within rhetorical pedagogy.
noun:  The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.
noun:  (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.
▸ Also see encomium


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