2. Verb. (third-person singular of flatter) ¹
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Definition of Flatters
1. flatter [v] - See also: flatter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flatters
Literary usage of Flatters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old Paris: Its Court and Literary Salons by Catherine Charlotte Jackson (1880)
"The King's Illness.—The Quack and the Court Physicians.— Mazarin flatters
Cromwell.—Debut of Moliere in " L'Etourdi." —La Troupe de Monsieur. ..."
2. Life and Times of Petrarch: With Notices of Boccacio and His Illustrious by Thomas Campbell, Johann Georg Pfister (1843)
"... and voyages even into the British Seas—flatters himself that he has conquered
his Passion—Returns to Avignon and finds his mistake—Has a Son born to him ..."
3. Letters of Eminent Persons, Addressed to David Hume by John Hill Burton (1849)
"... for his interference— Characteristics of Rousseau, a charlatan—Madame du
Deffand " the Viper," says she flatters Hume only through hatred of Rousseau, ..."
4. Historical Collections of the Essex Institute by Essex Institute (1863)
"Glover and the officers and soldiers who were with him in the skirmish on Friday
last, that their merit and good behavior deserved, he flatters himself that ..."
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