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eloge

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From French éloge, from Latin ēlogium. Doublet of elogy.

noun eloges

obsolete An expression of praise.
A statement or disquisition in praise of someone who has died. In a later éloge, Georges Cuvier called it, with pardonable exaggeration, ‘in some respects the last words of a dying Plato’.
Specifically, the statement made by a new member of the French Academy about his predecessor.

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@misc{eloge_2026,
  title = {eloge},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/eloge},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}