Definition of Flatterers

1. Noun. (plural of flatterer) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Flatterers

1. flatterer [n] - See also: flatterer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flatterers

flatshares
flatted
flatten
flatten out
flattenable
flattened
flattener
flatteners
flattening
flattenings
flattens
flatter
flatter-chested
flattered
flatterer
flatterers (current term)
flattereth
flatteries
flattering
flatteringly
flatterings
flatters
flattery
flattest
flattest-chested
flattie
flatties
flatting
flattings
flattish

Literary usage of Flatterers

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

1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"For princes have no other way of expelling flatterers than by showing ... A prince who acts otherwise is either bewildered by the adulation of flatterers, ..."

2. The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond, Monk of St. Edmundsbury: A Picture of by Jocelin de Brakelond, Jocelin, Lionel Cecil Jane, Francis Aidan Gasquet (1907)
"Then when the brother had gone, the abbot called me and asked me why I had been smiling, and 1 answered that the world was full of flatterers. ..."

3. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers (1850)
"[Agreeable Companion! and flatterers.'] An old acquaintance who met me this ... The reason that there is such a general outcry among us against flatterers, ..."

4. The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza by Benedictus de Spinoza, Robert Harvey Monro Elwes (1891)
"The proud man delights in the company of flatterers and parasites, bnt hates the company of the high- minded. Proof.—Pride is pleasure arising from a man's ..."

5. The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science, Philosophy by Caroline Ticknor, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Richard Stockton (1901)
"For princes have no other way of expelling flatterers than by showing ... A prince who acts otherwise is either bewildered by the adulation of flatterers, ..."

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