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adulation|ˌædjuːˈleɪʃən|
Forms: 4 adulacioun, adulacion, adulation.
[a. OFr. adulacion, ad. L. adūlātiōn-em, n. of action f. adūlā-ri: see adulate.]
Servile flattery or homage; exaggerated and hypocritical praise to which the bestower consciously stoops.
c1380Chaucer Bal. Good Counsail (R.) Men woll..call faire speache adulacion. 1429Pol. Poems (1859) II. 145 Eschew flatery and adulacioun. 1538Bale Thre Lawes 964 By fayned flatterye, and by coloured adulacyon. 1582N. T. (Rhem.) 1 Thess. ii. 5 For neither haue we been at any time in the word of adulation, as you know. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, iv. i. 271 Thinks thou the fierie Feuer will goe out With Titles blowne from Adulation? 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. iii. 18 Adulation ever follows the ambitious, for such alone receive pleasure from flattery. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Brkf. Table xii. 115, I have two letters on file; one is a pattern of adulation, the other of impertinence. |