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paean

pee uhn

  • n  a formal expression of praise
  • n  (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity)

  • Rather than any lefty, neo-socialist, communitarian brainwashing, President Obama's speech to your kids reads like a paean to individual striving and free market capitalism, the .
  • Twenty-seven years ago, Paul Simon sang a hugely popular paean to his Nikon camera.
  • It is a "paean to transformative violence .
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  • Alain de Botton in National Post
    It was then that Diderot and d'Alembert published their 27-volume Encyclopédie, which was, de Botton writes, "in truth, a paean to the nobility of labour."
  • Frank Gaffney in Washington Times
    ...sitting just to Mr. Moore's left at the Heritage session, Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy, called the text Mr. Moore helped negotiate an "Orwellian paean to socialism."
  • Stephen Greenhorn in Scotland on Sunday
    When I saw them on The Tube I was just gobsmacked,says Greenhorn. "I was sitting in Fauldhouse, West Lothian, watching two guys doing this paean to Scottish accents in a broad accent that you just never heard on the telly. Then they played...

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