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Blandishment   Listen
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Blandishment  n.  The act of blandishing; a word or act expressive of affection or kindness, and tending to win the heart; soft words and artful caresses; cajolery; allurement. "Cowering low with blandishment." "Attacked by royal smiles, by female blandishments."






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"Blandishment" Quotes from Famous Books



... into voluptuous softness? Is he getting the world's manners and the world's courtly insincerity? Is he becoming artificial through his change of life? My Christian brethren, we find nothing of the kind. There he stands in Herod's voluptuous court the prophet of the desert still, unseduced by blandishment from his high loyalty, and fronting his patron and his prince with the stern ...
— Sermons Preached at Brighton - Third Series • Frederick W. Robertson

... articles ticketed in the window were not, under any circumstances, to be sold. The shopmen, indeed, were forbidden to remove them from their positions under any entreaties or threats from the customers. The customer was to be at first informed, with all the blandishment at the shopman's command, that the goods furnished within the shop were exact counterparts of those exposed. Then the shopman was to argue that the arrangements of the window could not be disturbed. ...
— The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson - By One of the Firm • Anthony Trollope

... bright And thorough-edged intellect to part Error from crime; a prudence to withhold; The laws of marriage [3] character'd in gold Upon the blanched [4] tablets of her heart; A love still burning upward, giving light To read those laws; an accent very low In blandishment, but a most silver flow Of subtle-paced counsel in distress, Right to the heart and brain, tho' undescried, Winning its way with extreme gentleness Thro' [5] all the outworks of suspicious pride. A courage to endure and to obey; ...
— The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Tennyson



Words linked to "Blandishment" :   palaver, enticement, ingratiation, cajolery, wheedling, insinuation, flattery, blandish



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