Difference between Panegyric and Encomium

PANEGYRIC vs ENCOMIUM: NOUN

A formal eulogistic composition intended as a public compliment.
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 expression of praise
A formal speech or opus publicly praising someone or something.

A formal expression of praise
Warm, glowing 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.