blandishmentn.
/ˈblandɪʃmənt/ 1. Gently flattering speech or action; cajolery.
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the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > [noun] > wheedling, coaxing, or cajoling
blandishingc1305
flatteryc1320
blandishc1475
fleechingc1480
coying1580
blandishment1591
suppalpation1634
cajolery1649
wheedling1668
coaxing1672
cajolingc1724
cajolement1816
plámás1853
fleechment1886
sloothering1892
wheedlery1909
snow-jobbing1966
sweet-talking1981
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > [noun]
fickling?c1225
flattering?c1225
oluhningc1225
glozec1290
glozing1297
losengery1303
blandishingc1305
blandingc1315
flatteryc1320
glotheringc1325
soothinga1400
honey word?1406
faginga1425
flatrisec1440
smekingc1440
blandishc1475
blandiment?1510
glavering1545
coggingc1555
good1563
milksop1577
court holy water1583
glavery1583
blandishment1591
lipsalve1591
court holy bread1592
flatter1593
colloguing1596
sooth1597
daub?1602
blandation1605
lullaby1611
court-water1616
butter1618
blandiloquy1623
oil1645
court-element1649
courtshipment1649
courtship1655
blandiloquence1656
court-creama1657
daubing1656
fleecha1700
Spanish money1699
cajole1719
whiting1721
palaver1733
butter boat1747
flummery1749
treacle1771
Spanish coin1785
blancmange1790
blarney1796
soft corn1814
whillywha1816
carney1818
buttering up1819
soft soap1821
flam1825
slaver1825
soft solder1836
soothing syrup1839
soft-soaping1840
plámás1853
sawder1854
soap1854
salve1859
taffy1878
plámásing1897
flannel1927
smarm1937
flannelling1945
sweet talk1945
schmear1950
smarming1950
1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 1274 He gan enquire..of the Foxe, and his false blandishment.
1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 244 He..would use strange Sweetnesse and Blandishments of Words.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 128. ¶4 Nature has given all the little Arts of soothing and Blandishment to the Female.
1880 L. Stephen Alexander Pope iv. 96 He was not..inaccessible to aristocratic blandishments.
2. figurative. Attraction, allurement. concrete. Anything that pleases or allures.
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the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun]
drawingc1300
favourc1300
gracea1382
graciousnessa1425
likingnessc1450
allurement1548
allurance1574
seemliness1577
gracefulnessa1586
blandishment1594
attractiveness1622
takingness1652
engagingness1727
winningness1727
temptingness1802
cuteness1807
attachingness1808
winsomeness1825
beaux yeux1828
prepossessingness1876
enchantingness1879
aegyo1997
1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. H3v Beare hence these wretched blandishments of sinne [sc. his crown and robe].
1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. v. 233 If any externall blandishments happen, they increase not the chief good.
1865 J. H. Bennet Winter in S. Europe (ed. 3) ix. 260 His thoughts were ever on the blandishments of imperial Rome.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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