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19:37 Mar 30, 2018 |
English language (monolingual) [PRO] Social Sciences - Poetry & Literature | |||||
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| Selected response from: Charles Davis Spain Local time: 19:27 | ||||
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4 +7 | to, of or on |
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4 | apply the blocking action to the signal |
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4 | on or upon |
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apply the blocking action to the signal Explanation: A panegyric to, same as tribute. |
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to, of or on Explanation: All three of these prepositions are common after "panegyric", and all are used often enough by respectable authors to make absolute rejection of any of them arbitrary and untenable. If we do a diachronic analysis of "of" versus "to" in Google Books, using the Ngram viewer, it turns out that until very recently "of" was much more common. It's been gradually declining and they are now about equally common: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=panegyric to,p... I think "to" is more likely to be used if the panegyric is about a person and addressed or dedicated to that person, though it is also used when the latter is not the case. "Of" is perfectly natural if the panegyric is simply about the person. Panegyrics are quite often "on" inanimate things. I think you might well speak about X's panegyric on Hamlet (rather than to or of Hamlet). But there are lots of examples of fine writers referring to panegyrics both to and of people. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs (2018-03-30 21:57:12 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- To put it another way, to say that it is panegyric to, same as tribute (or homage) is no more or less true than to say it is panegyric of, same as praise. Indeed, the choice may be determined, at least in part, but which of these words is at the back of one's mind. |
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