Definition of Adulation

1. Noun. Servile flattery; exaggerated and hypocritical praise.

Generic synonyms: Flattery

Definition of Adulation

1. n. Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited.

Definition of Adulation

1. Noun. Flattery; fulsome praise. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Adulation

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adulation

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aduant garde
aduantage
aduantages
aduenture
aduentures
aduki bean
aduki beans
adularescence
adularia
adularias
adulate
adulated
adulates
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adulation
adulations
adulator
adulators
adulatory
adulatress
adulescent
adulescents
adult-movie
adult-onset diabetes
adult-onset diabetes mellitus
adult-onset still's disease
adult T-cell leukaemia
adult T-cell lymphoma

Literary usage of Adulation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1881)
"Courtiers are guilty of adulation; lovers are addicted to flattery ; people of ... Adulation can never be practised without falsehood ; its means are ..."

2. Synonyms Discriminated: A Dictionary of Synonymous Words in the English by Charles John Smith (1893)
"Flattery improves upon existing excellences or merits ; adulation invests ... Adulation gratifies the vanity. From one point of view »dotation is flattery ..."

3. The Connoisseur by Bonnell Thornton, George Colman, Mr Town, George Lyttelton Lyttelton (1903)
"honor to the age," and that he cannot speak of the artist without seeming to be " lavish in adulation." Horace Walpole himself, the happy and flattered ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... showed conclusively that the ultimate aim of the Jesuit party's literary activity was calumny of Protestantism, adulation of Roman Catholic princes, ..."

5. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1858)
"... and Hamilton—Manners—Interference in Congressional Affaire —Hamilton's present Success—His different Classes of Adherents—The Bank Mania— Adulation—Ames ..."

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