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Definition of Flatteries
1. flattery [n] - See also: flattery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flatteries
Literary usage of Flatteries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1890)
"... opposition partly to a peevish puritanism, and partly to ' the vain flatteries
of an imaginary liberty.' ' Mr. Hampden,' he wrote to Laud, ..."
2. The History of Romanism: from the Earliest Corruptions of Christianity to by John Dowling (1845)
"... but chiefly because by the base and servile flatteries he bestowed upon that
weak-minded but bloodthirsty tyrant, he paved the way for the success of ..."
3. English Poetry (1170-1892) by John Matthews Manley, Manly, John Matthews, 1865-1940 (1907)
"... flatteries, acts of strife, And sunk in that dead sea of life, 40 So deep, as
he did then death's waters sup, But that the cork of title buoyed him up. ..."
4. The History of Modern Europe: With an Account of the Decline and Fall of the by William Russell (1802)
"By these flatteries, and his original prepossessions, Charles was led to consider
himself as the supreme magistrate to whom heaven, by his birth-right, ..."
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