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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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"Blandishment" Quotes from Famous Books



... and corrupt this and we all know that there is nothing to hope for. The uncorrupted stock of true patriots in our land is firmly rooted in this conviction, which is worth more to the country than corn-fields and iron mines. The perpetual enticement and blandishment of worldly success so universal in our time can not move us if we found one theory and practice upon the central doctrine of moral education. Education, therefore, in its popular, untrammeled, moral sense, is the greatest concern ...
— The Elements of General Method - Based on the Principles of Herbart • Charles A. McMurry

... Names, and pay thee fealtie With low subjection; understand the same Of Fish within thir watry residence, Not hither summond, since they cannot change Thir Element to draw the thinner Aire. As thus he spake, each Bird and Beast behold Approaching two and two, These cowring low 350 With blandishment, each Bird stoop'd on his wing. I nam'd them, as they pass'd, and understood Thir Nature, with such knowledg God endu'd My sudden apprehension: but in these I found not what me thought I wanted still; And to the Heav'nly vision thus presum'd. O by what Name, for thou above all these, Above mankinde, ...
— The Poetical Works of John Milton • John Milton

... night occupied in idle talk, and I in attending to the needful: one moment thou wast taken up with the fresh blandishment of the Rose, and the next busy in admiring the blossoming spring. Wast thou not aware that every summer has its fall ...
— Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers • W. A. Clouston



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