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Word Meanings - FLATTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.

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  • REPELLENCE; REPELLENCY
    The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion.
  • CAJOLERY
    A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery. "Infamous cajoleries." Evelyn.
  • FLATTER
    1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
  • PERSUADER
    One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
  • SEDUCEMENT
    1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.
  • AFFECTATIONIST
    One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
  • CIRCUMVENTOR
    One who circumvents; one who gains his purpose by cunning.
  • VENTILATE
    brandish in the air, to fan, to winnow, from ventus wind; akin to E. 1. To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a
  • PERSUADED
    Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
  • INSULT
    1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. Dryden. 2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage. Syn. -- Affront;
  • TEMPTER
    One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil. "Those who are bent to do wickedly will never want tempters to urge them on." Tillotson. So glozed the Tempter, and his proem tuned. Milton.
  • INSULTMENT
    Insolent treatment; insult. "My speech of insultment ended." Shak.
  • TEMPTING
    Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing; as, tempting pleasures. -- Tempt"ing*ly, adv. -- Tempt"ing*ness, n.
  • SEDUCER
    One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions. He whose firm faith no reason could remove, Will melt before that soft seducer, love. Dryden.
  • CAJOLE
    To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle. I am not about to cajole or flatter you into a reception of my views. F. W. Robertson. Syn. -- To flatter; wheedle; delude; coax; entrap. (more info) hence, to amuse with idle talk, to flatter,
  • AFFECTION
    Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
  • AFFECTIBILITY
    The quality or state of being affectible.
  • CHEATABLE
    Capable of being cheated.
  • UNDECEIVE
    To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.
  • AFFECTIVELY
    In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
  • METEMPTOSIS
    The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years,
  • OVERAFFECT
    To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
  • MISAFFECT
    To dislike.
  • BEFLATTER
    To flatter excessively.
  • INAFFECTED
    Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv.

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