blandishment

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  1. Speech or action expressive of affection or kindness, and tending to win the heart; an artful caress; flattering attention; cajolery; endearment. As thus he spake, each bird and beast behold Approaching two and two; these cowering low With blandishment: each bird stoop'd on his wing. Milton, P. L., viii. 351. Blandishments will not fascinate us. D. Webster, Speech, Bunker Hill.
  2. Something bland or pleasing; that which pleases or allures. The rose yields her sweete blandishment. Habington, Castara, ii. The blandishments of early friendships. Longfellow, Hyperion, iv. 5.

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  • She felt she could not endure another minute of Peta being sentimental and silly about the police constable, flapping her hands and treating Cockie (and the attendant Stephen), to a display of pretty blandishment, the sweet, the tender-hearted, the considerate, the all-forgiving one. —  Suddenly At His Residence - Christianna Brand - Inspector Cockrill 03: 1947
  • "You resisted her blandishment," the Demon Earth said. —  Swell Foop
  • The "lite" version with the millions of tiny thread worms might be at least a blandishment - if that doesn't work the "magnum" with the big wrigglers might. —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • In Gawar, he tried persuasion, blandishment, and compulsion; but the authorities gave him to understand that there could not be persecution. —  History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II.
  • His Virgins are rather "_des jeunes épouses de la veille_"--far too like his Venuses and his mistresses: they are all luxuriant human beauty; with that peculiar air of blandishment which he has thrown into all his female heads, even into his portraits, and his old women. —  The Diary of an Ennuyée
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  1. from Old French blandissement, from blandir: see blandish and -ment.
 

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