Meaning of BLANDISHMENT
| Pronunciation: | | 'blandishmunt
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- [n] the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery
- [n] flattery intended to persuade
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| | Synonyms: | | cajolery, palaver, wheedling |
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| | See Also: | | enticement, flattery, ingratiation, insinuation, temptation | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Blan"dish*ment\, n. [Cf. OF. blandissement.]
The act of blandishing; a word or act expressive of affection
or kindness, and tending to win the heart; soft words and
artful caresses; cajolery; allurement.
Cowering low with blandishment. --Milton.
Attacked by royal smiles, by female blandishments.
--Macaulay.
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| | Related Terms: | | adulation, agacerie, allure, allurement, appeal, artful endearments, attraction, attractiveness, beguilement, beguiling, bewitchery, bewitchment, blandishments, blarney, bunkum, buttonholing, cajolement, cajolery, captivation, caress, charisma, charm, charmingness, coaxing, come-hither, compliment, conning, dunning, enchantment, endearment, engagement, enlistment, enthrallment, enticement, entrapment, exhortation, eyewash, fair words, fascination, fawning, flattery, flirtation, forbidden fruit, glamour, grease, honeyed phrases, honeyed words, hortation, importunateness, importunity, incense, inducement, interest, inveiglement, invitation, jawboning, lobbying, magnetism, nagging, oil, palaver, pat, persuasion, pestering, plaguing, plying, praise, preaching, preachment, pressing, pressure, pretty lies, sales talk, salesmanship, seducement, seduction, seductiveness, selling, sex appeal, snaring, snow job, soap, soft soap, soft words, solicitation, suasion, sweet nothings, sweet talk, sweet words, sycophancy, tantalization, teasing, temptation, urgency, urging, wheedling, winning ways, winsomeness, witchery, wooing, working on |
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