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Definitions of blandishment in various dictionaries:
noun - flattery intended to persuade
noun - the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery
BLANDISHMENT - Flattery (also called adulation or blandishment) is the act of giving excessive compliments, generally for the purpose of ingratiating oneself with t...
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| Flattering speech or actions designed to persuade or influence. |
| a flattering or pleasing statement or action used as a means of gently persuading someone to do something. |
| A flattering or pleasing statement or action used as a means of gently persuading someone to do something. |
| the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery |
| flattery intended to persuade |
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Flattery (also called adulation or blandishment) is the act of giving excessive compliments, generally for the purpose of ingratiating oneself with the subject. It is used in pick-up lines when attempting to initiate romantic courtship. * Historically, flattery has been used as a standard form of discourse when addressing a king or queen. In the Renaissance, it was a common practice among writers to flatter the reigning monarch, as Edmund Spenser flattered Queen Elizabeth I in The Faerie Queene, William Shakespeare flattered King James I in Macbeth and Niccolò Machiavelli flattered Lorenzo II de' Medici in The Prince. * Most associations with flattery, however, are negative. Negative descriptions of flattery range at least as far back in history as The Bible. In the Divine Comedy, Dante depicts flatterers wading in human excrement, stating that their words were the equivalent of excrement, in the second bolgia of 8th Circle of Hell. * An insincere flatterer is a stock character in many lite |