Definition of Flatteries

1. Noun. (plural of flattery) ¹

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Definition of Flatteries

1. flattery [n] - See also: flattery

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flatteries

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

Literary usage of Flatteries

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

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1890)
"... opposition partly to a peevish puritanism, and partly to ' the vain flatteries of an imaginary liberty.' ' Mr. Hampden,' he wrote to Laud, ..."

2. The History of Romanism: from the Earliest Corruptions of Christianity to by John Dowling (1845)
"... but chiefly because by the base and servile flatteries he bestowed upon that weak-minded but bloodthirsty tyrant, he paved the way for the success of ..."

3. English Poetry (1170-1892) by John Matthews Manley, Manly, John Matthews, 1865-1940 (1907)
"... flatteries, acts of strife, And sunk in that dead sea of life, 40 So deep, as he did then death's waters sup, But that the cork of title buoyed him up. ..."

4. The History of Modern Europe: With an Account of the Decline and Fall of the by William Russell (1802)
"By these flatteries, and his original prepossessions, Charles was led to consider himself as the supreme magistrate to whom heaven, by his birth-right, ..."

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