The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word ENCOMIUM
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More clues leading to the result ENCOMIUM
- Praise once given out about one parent
- Plaudit for commune I reformed
- Final cut? Company quiet about current rave review, perhaps
- Endless wit in English number getting high praise
- Tribute to mother protecting child's heart, supporting, making one rise over smallest of challenges
- Naughty once, with mother restricting one’s praise
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What does ENCOMIUM mean?
ENCOMIUM noun- 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.