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Webster 1913 Edition
Adulation
Adˊu-la′tion
,Noun.
[F.
adulation
, fr. L. adulatio
, fr. adulari
, adulatum
, to flatter.] Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited.
Think’st thou the fiery fever will go out
With titles blown from
With titles blown from
adulation
? Shakespeare
Syn. – Sycophancy; cringing; fawning; obsequiousness; blandishment.
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Adulation
, Flattery
, Compliment
. Men deal in compliments from a desire to please; they use flattery either from undue admiration, or a wish to gratify vanity; they practice adulation from sordid motives, and with a mingled spirit of falsehood and hypocrisy. Compliment may be a sincere expression of due respect and esteem, or it may be unmeaning; flattery is apt to become gross; adulation is always servile, and usually fulsome. Webster 1828 Edition
Adulation
ADULA'TION
,Noun.
Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited; high compliment.
Definition 2024
adulation
adulation
English
Noun
adulation (plural adulations)
- Flattery; fulsome praise.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 3, in The Celebrity:
- Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, ch. 1,
- It is still possible to discuss his place in art, and the adulation of his admirers is perhaps no less capricious than the disparagement of his detractors; [...]
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Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:flattery
Related terms
Translations
Flattery; fulsome praise
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Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Latin
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.dy.la.sjɔ̃/
Noun
adulation f (plural adulations)