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Definition of Flatterers
1. flatterer [n] - See also: flatterer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flatterers
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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