eulogist

English

Noun

eulogist (plural eulogists)

1. A speaker who delivers a funeral oration (eulogy) for a deceased person.
2. A person who praises another person or thing.
   • 1850, Herman Melville, White Jacket, ch. 90:

     I consider, that so far as what is called military renown is concerned, the American Navy needs no eulogist but History.

   • 1867, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn, ch. 27:

     I am his eulogist; but I am not in love with him. If he were to ask me to be his wife to-morrow, I should be distressed, and should refuse him.