Definition of Blandishments

1. Noun. (plural of blandishment) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Blandishments

1. blandishment [n] - See also: blandishment

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blandishments

blandified
blandifies
blandify
blandifying
blandiloquence
blandiloquent
blandiloquently
blandiose
blandish
blandished
blandisher
blandishers
blandishes
blandishing
blandishments (current term)
blandly
blandness
blandnesses
blands
blank
blank canvas
blank canvases
blank check
blank check company
blank checks
blank cheque
blank cheques
blank end

Literary usage of Blandishments

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

1. Rural Rides: In the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1885)
"... against all blandishments, all intrigues, all temptations, and all open attacks. She sets at defiance all 'military,' all 'yeomanry cavalry' They may as ..."

2. Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes by Samuel Austin Allibone (1875)
"When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on. DR. G. SEWELL: The Suicide. Oh that this too, too solid flesh ..."

3. Historical memoirs of my own time by Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall (1904)
"From this Resolution, expressed in laconic, but energetic terms, neither menaces, blandishments, nor expostulations, could induce him to recede: ..."

4. Trilby by George Du Maurier (1894)
"And though the good Laird was the least susceptible of mortals, he would often find these innocent blandishments a somewhat trying ordeal! ..."

5. The History of Rome by Livy (1835)
"... on his first arrival in Alexandria, by those blandishments which were afterwards no less .triumphant over Antony.* The ministers of the young monarch, ..."

6. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"... against all blandishments, all intrigues, all temptations, and all open attacks. She sets at defiance all ' military,' all 'yeomanry cavalry? ..."

7. Rural Rides: In the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1885)
"... against all blandishments, all intrigues, all temptations, and all open attacks. She sets at defiance all 'military,' all 'yeomanry cavalry' They may as ..."

8. Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes by Samuel Austin Allibone (1875)
"When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on. DR. G. SEWELL: The Suicide. Oh that this too, too solid flesh ..."

9. Historical memoirs of my own time by Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall (1904)
"From this Resolution, expressed in laconic, but energetic terms, neither menaces, blandishments, nor expostulations, could induce him to recede: ..."

10. Trilby by George Du Maurier (1894)
"And though the good Laird was the least susceptible of mortals, he would often find these innocent blandishments a somewhat trying ordeal! ..."

11. The History of Rome by Livy (1835)
"... on his first arrival in Alexandria, by those blandishments which were afterwards no less .triumphant over Antony.* The ministers of the young monarch, ..."

12. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"... against all blandishments, all intrigues, all temptations, and all open attacks. She sets at defiance all ' military,' all 'yeomanry cavalry? ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Blandishments on Dictionary.com!Search for Blandishments on Thesaurus.com!Search for Blandishments on Google!Search for Blandishments on Wikipedia!

Search