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Definition of Adulators
1. adulator [n] - See also: adulator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adulators
Literary usage of Adulators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Men of the Time: Biographical Sketches of Eminent Living Characters ... Also by Alaric Alexander Watts (1856)
"... the Earl of Carlisle was nominated by her Majesty Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
adulators are wont to entitle him, and, in truth, one of the most original ..."
2. 'Skeletons at the feast'. Or, The radical programme by Alfred Austin (1885)
"adulators of the multitude, and fight the battle, even if thereby we lose it,
like patriots and honest men. NOTE. The longer one lives, the more convinced ..."
3. The Story of the Life of Pius the Ninth by Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1877)
"Plenty of writings have already been given to the public, whose authors—some
adulators, and some detractors—have striven to attract the attention of the ..."
4. The Great Message to All Governments and All Nations: For the Introduction by Andreas Bernardus Smolnikar (1864)
"Those two adulators were the types of the two adulators who have deluded the
Emperor in regard to our mission, and as a consequence terrible judgments came ..."
5. Personal Recollections of Lamb, Hazlitt, and Others by Peter George Patmore (1875)
"... his remarkable social qualities had gathered round him a coterie of that class
of admirers who are too apt to take the form of adulators, and who, ..."
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