Difference between Paean and Encomium

PAEAN vs ENCOMIUM: NOUN

A formal expression of praise
A song of joyful praise or exultation.
A fervent expression of joy or praise.
An ancient Greek hymn of thanksgiving or invocation, especially to Apollo.
Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph.
An enthusiastic expression of praise.
(ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity)

A formal expression of praise
Formal praise; laudation; a discriminating expression of approval, either of a person or of a thing.
Synonyms Panegyric, etc. See eulogy.
Warm or high praise; panegyric; strong commendation.
Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.
A general category of oratory.
A method within rhetorical pedagogy.
The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.
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.
Warm, glowing praise.

Lament, Exaltation, Dirge, Poem, Ballad, Jeremiad, Evocation, Ditty, Elegy, Praise, Ode, Pean, Eulogy, Encomium, Panegyric

Adoration, Admiration, Approbation, Oration, Hagiography, Laudation, Adulation, Peroration, Vituperation, Plaudit, Praise, Pean, Eulogy, Paean, Panegyric

Disquisition, Lament, Exaltation, Dirge, Poem, Ballad, Jeremiad, Evocation, Ditty, Elegy, Praise, Ode, Eulogy, Encomium, Panegyric

Deification, Festschrift, Invective, Adoration, Admiration, Approbation, Oration, Hagiography, Adulation, Peroration, Vituperation, Praise, Eulogy, Paean, Panegyric

We hope that the following list of synonyms for the word paean will help you to finish your crossword today.
The Men's Fall 2015 collection is a paean to the visionary spirit of London, Tokyo, and Paris.
Such a book could simply be a paean to its subject, but not so in this case.
Paul concluded his treatise with a paean of praise to God for his wisdom.
This trend was actually a paean to the military virtues of the castle.
Blackjack" begins as a lyric, hymnodical paean and progresses through struggle and anguish.
LIVING AS A LESBIAN is Cheryl Clarke's paean to lesbian life.
Rather it is a frighteningly visceral paean to one woman's awareness of her own self-destruction.
APOLLO; a song of triumph, as such songs generally commenced with the invocation Io Paean.
The series is a paean to local libraries and archives.

His encomium of Athens, and the description of Tempe, should be published from the Bodleian MS.
Georgicks, published in the Miscellanies; and a Latin Encomium on queen Mary, in the Musae Anglicanae.
Dylan offers a tender encomium to the title virtuoso and also recounts the original sin of American slavery.
But by the way this Encomium doth not belong to all Horses, but such as are good.
This chapter, which is replete with musical imagery, is something of an encomium on unity.
The highest encomium which we can bestow, is an impartial narrative of his actions.
What higher encomium can be passed upon a Minister of the Lord Jesus Christ?
Praise of Folly, the paradox is a highly ambiguous mock encomium.
In the Encomium, Gorgias mainly parodies common understandings of Helen.
No encomium is enough for your quality blogs and articles.