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Definition of Flattered
1. Adjective. In a positive mood because of a comment or action which causes one to feel proud of oneself. ¹
2. Verb. (past of flatter) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flattered
1. flatter [v] - See also: flatter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flattered
Literary usage of Flattered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New Method of Learning the French Language: Embracing Both the Analytic by Louis Fasquelle (1872)
"Que je me fusse flatté, m. flattée, /. that I might ham flattered myself Que tu te
... Se flatter, to flatter one's self \ S'être flatté, to have flattered ..."
2. Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (1895)
"... and it was so, and of them abundance perished, and particularly those whom
these false prophets flattered with hopes that they should be kept in their ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"If Julian had flattered himself that his personal connection with the capital of
the East would be productive of mutual satisfaction tu the ..."
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