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Adulatory

adjective
1.
Obsequiously complimentary.





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... great blunders, granite blocks and rotten wood, into his antiquarian edifices. One of the commonest errors, attributing immense antiquity, oriental origin, and everything noble in Ireland to the Milesians, originated with these men; or, rather, was transferred from the adulatory songs of clan-bards to grave stories. Now, it is quite certain that several races flourished here before the Milesians, and that everything oriental, and much that was famous in Ireland, belonged to some of these elder races, and not ...
— Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry • Thomas Davis


Words linked to "Adulatory" :   adulate, flattering


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