paneulogism

English

Etymology

pan- +‎ eulogy +‎ -ism

Noun

paneulogism (usually uncountable, plural paneulogisms)

  1. eulogy of everything; indiscriminate praise
    • 1857, The National Review, volume 5, page 130:
      With all its excellencies, and they are many, her book has a trace of the cant of paneulogism.
    • 1860, Arthur Lloyd Windsor, Ethica; or, Characteristics of Men, Manners, and Books, page 285:
      Owing to, or, at least, in conjunction with, the retrospective tendencies of the age, Paneulogism is become one of the most prominent vices of criticism.
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