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Adulate   /ˈædʒəlˌeɪt/   Listen
Adulate

verb
1.
Flatter in an obsequious manner.






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"Adulate" Quotes from Famous Books



... debased persons as the result of love quarrels, broken engagements or marriages, seductions, etc., to study the letters that the two parties have written before and after their quarrel, in order to be convinced of the correctness of what we have said above. In the first letters the lovers adulate each other and adorn each other with the most hyperbolic epithets, swearing eternal love and fidelity, and deluding each other in the most absurd manner. In letters written sometimes only a few days later we are astonished to see the same individuals grossly ...
— The Sexual Question - A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study • August Forel



Words linked to "Adulate" :   adulator, flatter, blandish, adulatory



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