adulate

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But I came not to adulate: Your frankness I shall compensate By an avowal just as plain.

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  1. transitive verb To praise or admire excessively; fawn on.

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  1. Back-formation from adulation.

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  1. from Latin adulatus, past participle of adūlari, flatter, fawn upon as a dog, from ad, to, + ūlari, a word of undetermined origin, not found in the simple form; according to some, from ūla = Greek οὐρά, a tail, adulari meaning then ‘wag the tail at,’ as a dog.
 

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/ˈædʒjuleɪt/
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