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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



... 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

... didst rightly. [Exit Servant. O this new freedom! at how dear a price We've bought the seeming good! The peaceful virtues And every blandishment of private life, The father's cares, the mother's fond endearment, 200 All sacrificed to liberty's wild riot. The wingd hours, that scatter'd roses round me, Languid and sad drag their slow course along, ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Vol I and II • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... from these, another sort Of lovers linked in true heart's consent; Which loved not as these for like intent, But on chaste virtue grounded their desire, Far from all fraud or feigned blandishment; Which, in their spirits kindling zealous fire, Brave thoughts and noble deeds did ...
— Friendship • Hugh Black

... Many a blandishment was practised upon Halifax, which he would never have known, had he no other attractions than those of his poetry, of which a short time has withered the beauties. It would now be esteemed no honour, by a contributor to the monthly ...
— Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson

... youth, "if thou wert sent "With thy soft lute and beauty's blandishment "To wake unholy wishes in this heart, "Or tempt its truth, thou little know'st the art. "For tho' thy lips should sweetly counsel wrong, "Those vestal eyes would disavow its song. "But thou hast breathed such purity, ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al


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