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eulogium en · NOUN

Etymology

From Medieval Latin eulogium, apparently from a confusion between ēlogium and eulogia. Doublet of eulogy.

Meanings

1. A eulogy.
   • Let the grave close over the hand that has laboured through feverish midnights,—over the warm heart that beat so painfully; let the ear be closed to that applause which was its sweetest music;—and then how lavish we grow of all that was before so harshly denied! Then the marble is carved with eulogium; then the life is written; and thousands are lavish of pity and sympathy: every thing is given when it is too late to give anything! 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Secretaryship”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 129:
   • --and you have been weak enough, traitor, to listen to the eulogiums of a nurse on her child!" 1871, James Fenimore Cooper, Home as Found:
   • Her eulogium on Rousseau was accidentally put into my hands, and her sentiments, the sentiments of too many of her sex, may serve as the text for a few comments. 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
   • Oh, wonderful poet, thou shalt be immortal, if my eulogiums can make thee so! 1783, William Godwin, Four Early Pamphlets:

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