different between inveigh vs ingratiate

English

Etymology

From Latin inveh? (“bring in, carry in”), from in- + veh? (“carry”). Compare vehicle, invective.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

inveigh (third-person singular simple present inveighs, present participle inveighing, simple past and past participle inveighed)

1. (intransitive, with against or occasionally about, formerly also with on, at, upon) To complain loudly, to give voice to one's censure or criticism [from 16th c.]
   • 1860, William Cullen Bryant, letter, 14 Sep 1860:

     I saw Mr. Cairns yesterday. He inveighed at great length at what he called Mr. Willis's neglect of his children, saying he had just discovered that they got no whortleberries and no fish, and that he was just beginning to send them those things.

   • 1989, Jack Vance, Madouc:

     Noblemen loyal to King Milo inveighed upon him, until at last he sent off dispatches to King Audry and King Aillas, alerting them to the peculiar rash of forays, raids and provocations current along the Lyonesse border.

   • 1999, Will Hutton, The Guardian, 26 Sep 1999:

     Only last week, three aggressively written pamphlets crossed my desk inveighing against the euro.

   • 2011, Elizabeth Drew, "What were they thinking?", New York Review of Books, 18 Aug 2011:

     After the President, in a press conference in late June, inveighed against tax breaks for corporate jets, the industry quickly insisted that such a change would cost jobs.

   • 2016, Patrick Healy and Jonathan Martin, The New York Times, 9 Feb 2016:

     He declared his independence from a reviled status quo by inveighing in blunt and occasionally vulgar terms about “stupid” leaders weakening America.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To draw in or away; to entice, inveigle. [17th–19th c.]
   • c. 1680, Samuel Butler, Genuine Remains:

     He is a Spirit, that inveighs away a Man from himself, undertakes great Matters for him, and after fells him for a Slave.

Derived terms

• inveigher
• inveighing

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English

Etymology

First attested in 1622. From Italian ingraziare or Medieval Latin *ingratiatus, from Latin in gr?tiam (“for the favor of”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n???e?.?i.e?t/
• Rhymes: -e??ie?t

Verb

ingratiate (third-person singular simple present ingratiates, present participle ingratiating, simple past and past participle ingratiated)

1. (reflexive) To bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please him or her.
   • 1903, Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, ch. 58:

     [H]e would pat the children on the head when he saw them on the stairs, and ingratiate himself with them as far as he dared.

   • 2007 July 9, Brian Bennett, "Why Maliki Is Still Around," Time (retrieved 26 May 2014):

     He ingratiated himself with the Kurdish bloc when he stood up to aggressive Turkish rhetoric about the Kurdish border in May.

2. (followed by to) To recommend; to render easy or agreeable.
   • c. 1650, Henry Hammond, "Sermon XIII" in Miscellaneous Theological Works of Henry Hammond, Volume 3 (1850 edition), p. 283 (Google preview):

     What difficulty would it [the love of Christ] not ingratiate to us?

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dr. J. Scott to this entry?)

Related terms

• ingratiating (adjective)
• ingratiation (noun)

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