different between adulation vs blandishment

English

Etymology

From French adulation, from Latin adul?tio (“flattery”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æd???le???n/, /?ædj??le???n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æd???le???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

adulation (countable and uncountable, plural adulations)

1. Flattery; fulsome praise.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, ch. 1,

     It is still possible to discuss his place in art, and the adulation of his admirers is perhaps no less capricious than the disparagement of his detractors; [...]

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:flattery

Related terms

• adulate
• adulator
• adulatory

Translations

See also

• admiration
• adoration

Anagrams

• laudation

French

Etymology

From Latin adul?tio (“flattery”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.dy.la.sj??/

Noun

adulation f (plural adulations)

1. adulation

Related terms

• aduler
• adulateur

Further reading

• “adulation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From blandish (“to persuade someone by using flattery, to cajole;to praise someone dishonestly, to flatter or butter up”) +? -ment (suffix forming nouns from verbs, having the sense of ‘the action or result of what is denoted by the verbs’). Blandish is derived from Middle English blaundishen (“to flatter; to fawn; to be enticing or persuasive; to be favourable; of the sea: to become calm”) [and other forms] (whence blaundice (“flattery, blandishment; caresses, dalliance; allurement, attractiveness; deceitfulness, deception”) [and other forms]), from Anglo-Norman blaundishen, from blandiss-, the extended stem of Middle French blandir + Middle English -ishen (suffix forming verbs). Blandir is derived from Latin bland?r?, the present active infinitive of blandior (“to fawn, flatter; to delude”), from blandus (“fawning, flattering, smooth, suave; persuasive; alluring, enticing, seductive; agreeable, pleasant”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel- (“erroneous, false; bad, evil”)) + -i? (suffix forming causative verbs from adjectives).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?blænd??m(?)nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?blænd??m?nt/
• Hyphenation: bland?ish?ment

Noun

blandishment (plural blandishments)

1. (countable) Often in the plural form blandishments: a flattering speech or action designed to influence or persuade.

   Synonyms: cajolery; see also Thesaurus:flattery
2. (countable) Something alluring or attractive.
3. (uncountable, figuratively) Allurement, attraction.

Related terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• flattery on Wikipedia.Wikipedia