paean
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paean englanniksi
A chant or song, especially a hymn of thanksgiving for deliverance or victory, to Apollo or sometimes another god or goddess; ''hence'' any song sung to solicit victory in battle.
(quote-book) and do you follow.
(quote-book) Oh, hapleſs victor thou! oh, vainly brave! / How haſt thou fought, to make thyſelf a ſlave!
(quote-book). Translated from the German Ms. of K. O. Müller, Professor in the University of Gottingen|series=Library of Useful Knowledge|edition=new corr.|location=London|publisher=Robert Baldwin, 47, (w) under the superintendence of the (w)|year=1847|pages=19–20|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=lopwAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA19|oclc=15666465|passage=The pæans were songs, of which the tune and words expressed courage and confidence. (..) Pæans were sung, not only when there was a hope of being able, by the help of the gods, to overcome a great and imminent danger, but when the danger was happily past; they were songs of hope and confidence as well as of thanksgiving for victory and safety.
(quote-journal)|month=February|year=1833|volume=XV|issue=LXXXVI|page=209|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=N2kEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA209|oclc=297766396|passage=The dissolution of this great Republic, and the probable failure of the mighty experiments in government of which it has been the theatre, will be a fine subject for political parties to illustrate their various prejudices. The upholders of despotism will sing pæans over its downfall—the lovers of liberty will mourn over what appears to be the stern condition of man, to run alternately the career of improvement and of degeneracy— (..)
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An enthusiastic expression of praise.
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1991 August, A. Baldwin, Jr.|John Ashby BaldwinJr., “Foreword”, in Philip D. Caine, ''Eagles of the RAF: The World War II Eagle Squadrons'', Washington, D.C.: Defense University|National Defense University Press, (OCLC), page ix:
- Unlike other accounts, ''Eagles of the RAF'' is not simply a paean to the pilots as special heroes and "aces," though many performed heroically and some sacrificed their lives.
(quote-book)|year=1992|page=79|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z1BiTmyFLLUC&pg=PA79|isbn=978-0-925613-08-0|passage=Mexico's ruling elites have long played up their supposed commitment to the nation's laboring masses. Article 123 of the 1917 Constitution promulgated the most advanced labor code of its time, and revolutionary rhetoric has always rung with paeans to labor.
(quote-book) cooperation with Preservation Society of Newport County|The Preservation Society of Newport County|year=2008|page=7|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=VPhNj_9yOt0C&pg=PA7|isbn=978-1-55709-091-1|passage=Veteran world travelers visiting Newport, Rhode Island, in the first years of the twentieth century were as impressed as neophytes by the sheer concentration of opulent summer villas ringing this old colonial seaport. Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia|Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia's paean to the resort struck a characteristic chord: "I have never dreamed of such luxury as I have seen at Newport."
(quote-book)'s&93; transit to eternity; thronged by the shades of heroes, his approach to the confines of bliss; pæaned by the songs of angels, his journey beyond the stars!
(quote-book)|location=London; Felling-on-Tyne, County Durham; New York, N.Y.|publisher=Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, of Beauclerc|The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd.|year=1907|page=46|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=dRVjxX0b-HcC&pg=PA46|oclc=561048691|passage=Yea, with gladness did they pæan, bowing low before my car, / In my ears their homage echoed from the sunrise to the star.
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