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blandishment|ˈblændɪʃmənt|
[f. as prec. + -ment: cf. OF. blandissement.]
1. Gently flattering speech or action; cajolery.
1591Spenser M. Hubberd 1274 He gan enquire..of the Foxe, and his false blandishment. 1622Bacon Henry VII, Wks. (1860) 477 He..would use strange sweetness and blandishments of words. 1711Addison Spect. No. 128 ⁋4 Nature has given all the Arts of Soothing and Blandishment to the Female. 1880L. Stephen Pope iv. 96 He was not..inaccessible to aristocratic blandishments.
2. fig. Attraction, allurement. concr. Anything that pleases or allures.
1594Greene Look. Glasse (1861) 142 Bear hence these wretched blandishments of sin (Taking off his crown and robe). 1660Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 609/1 If any external blandishments happen, they increase not the chief good. 1875J. Bennet Winter Medit. ii. xi. 369 His thoughts..were ever on the blandishments of imperial Rome. |