different between inducement vs blandishment

English

Etymology

induce +? -ment

Noun

inducement (countable and uncountable, plural inducements)

1. An incentive that helps bring about a desired state. In some contexts, this can imply bribery.

   Citation of Richard Stallman ...it won't run on a free platform and (...) your program is actually an inducement for people to install non-free software.

2. (law) An introductory statement of facts or background information.
3. (shipping) The act of placing a port on a vessel's itinerary because the volume of cargo offered at that port justifies the cost of routing the vessel.

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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.

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Further reading

• flattery on Wikipedia.Wikipedia