Difference between Paean and Panegyric

PAEAN vs PANEGYRIC: 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
Elaborate praise or laudation; an encomium.
A eulogy, written or spoken, in praise of some person or achievement; a formal or elaborate encomium.
Praise bestowed on some person, action, or character; laudation: as, a tone of exaggerated panegyric.
Synonyms Encomium, etc. see eulogy.
An oration or eulogy in praise of some person or achievement; a formal or elaborate encomium; a laudatory discourse; laudation. See Synonym of eulogy.
A formal speech or opus publicly praising someone or something.
A formal eulogistic composition intended as a public compliment.

To praise.
Addressed to a festal assembly; epidictic; hence, containing praise or eulogy; of the nature of panegyric; encomiastic.

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

Epistle, Grandiloquence, Doggerel, Disquisition, Declamation, Jeremiad, Peroration, Oration, Encomiastic, Complimentary, Pean, Eulogy, Paean, Encomium, Eulogistic

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

Prose, Epistle, Grandiloquence, Doggerel, Disquisition, Declamation, Jeremiad, Peroration, Oration, Encomiastic, Complimentary, Eulogy, Paean, Encomium, Eulogistic

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.

In The Propaganda of Power: The Role of Panegyric in Late Antiquity, ed.
Pliny's panegyric was set at the beginning of the collection as classical model of the genre.
Then had come Lord Henry Wotton with his strange panegyric on youth, his terrible warning of its brevity.
Among the few who still cultivated learning oratory degenerated into panegyric, poetry occupied itself with mean or trivial subjects.
Wrote under Constantius, on whom he is said (Libanius, ed. Reiske, p. 24) to have delivered a panegyric.
Peter Walsh to preach the panegyric of St Ignatuus at the Jesuit Oratory.
His fiction has recently appeared in All IS FULL OF HELL a panegyric to William Blake.
Prophet, which is a sort of panegyric expressing an ardent desire to visit him at Medina.
This probably refers to his panegyric in the Apology for Smectymnitzs.
Charles he preached at Bayswater the panegyric of that Saint.