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Aug. 12, 2016
blandishment\BLAN-dish-muh nt\noun
1. something, as an action or speech, that tends to flatter, coax,
entice, etc.: Our blandishments left him unmoved. We succumbed to the
blandishments of tropical living.
QuotesThis daughter or Atlas has got hold of poor unhappy Ulysses, and
keeps trying by every kind of blandishment to make him forget his home,
so that he is tired of life, and thinks nothing but how he may once
more see the smoke of his own chimneys.
-- Homer, The Odyssey, translated by Samuel Butler, 1900
Origin of blandishmentBlandishment and its etymon blandish can be
traced to the Latin blandīrī meaning "to soothe, flatter." It entered
English in the late 1500s.More From Dictionary.comSubmit a favorite
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