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Blandishment   /blˈændɪʃmənt/   Listen
Blandishment

noun
1.
Flattery intended to persuade.  Synonyms: cajolery, palaver.
2.
The act of urging by means of teasing or flattery.  Synonym: wheedling.





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... amis, He started up, as seeming to mistrust 435 Some secret ill, or hidden foe of his: Lo there before his face his Lady is, Under blake stole hyding her bayted hooke; And as halfe blushing offred him to kis, With gentle blandishment and lovely looke, 440 Most like that virgin true, which for ...
— Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I • Edmund Spenser


Words linked to "Blandishment" :   blandish, insinuation, ingratiation, wheedling, flattery, enticement, temptation, cajolery


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