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Definition of Cajolement
1. n. The act of cajoling; the state of being cajoled; cajolery.
Definition of Cajolement
1. Noun. The act of cajoling or the state of being cajoled. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cajolement
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cajolement
Literary usage of Cajolement
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Atlantic Club-book: Being Sketches in Prose and Verse (1834)
"Ay, cajolement! I fearlessly repeat the word. What care I for them? I am " grown
up" now—free, emancipated—" they shall never whip me more! ..."
2. Viagens ethnographicas sul americanas: Argentina by Charmian London, Online Archive of California, Simoens da Silva (1921)
"Jack, after trying every cajolement to win him over, and going himself or sending
his nephew or ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1875)
"... to create no unnecessary impression of restraint, and that if the desires can
he combated by cajolement, it is infinitely better than overt opposition. ..."
4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"He presses sharply always toward the great end of self-advancement— whether by
flatteries, or cajolement, or direct entreaty. He believed in the survival of ..."
5. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1898)
"... at large to co-operate cordially in the exploitation ol his eloquent and
unrivalled methods in the pursuit of travelling- trunks and the cajolement ..."
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