An orator who delivers eulogies or panegyrics.

synonym: panegyrist.

Roget 935: flatterer, adulator; eulogist, euphemist; optimist, encomiast, laudator [Lat.], whitewasher.    toady, toadeater^†; sycophant, courtier, Sir Pertinax MacSycophant; flaneur [Fr.], proneur [Fr.]; puffer, touter^†, claqueur [Fr.]; clawback^†, earwig, doer of dirty work; parasite, hanger-on etc. (servility) 886.    yes-man, suckup, ass-kisser [Vulg.], brown-noser [Vulg.], teacher's pet.    ... show more

Dutch: lofredenaar