C2noun · countable / uncountable

blandishment

bland·ish·ment

blandishment · blandishments

Einflüsterung

Often in the plural form blandishments: a flattering speech or action designed to…Often in the plural form blandishments: a flattering speech or action designed to influence or persuade.

UK/ˈblæn.dɪʃ.m(ə)nt/US/ˈblæn.dɪʃ.mənt/

» My girlfriend's nonchalant blandishments slowly convinced me to start lifting weights and jogging.

Meaning

3 senses

(countable)Often in the plural form blandishments: a flattering speech or action designed to influence or persuade.
Einflüsterung
(countable)Something alluring or attractive.
(figuratively, uncountable)Allurement, attraction.

More definitions

the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery
flattery intended to persuade

Examples

2 sentences

My girlfriend's nonchalant blandishments slowly convinced me to start lifting weights and jogging.
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Never again will I hear from her a teasing whisper or soft blandishment, never again feel around me her tight embrace.
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Translations

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Deutsch

By meaning 1

flattering speech or action designed to influence or persuade:

Origin

From blandish (“to persuade someone by using flattery, to cajole; to praise someone dishon

From blandish (“to persuade someone by using flattery, to cajole; to praise someone dishonestly, to flatter or butter up”) + -ment (suffix forming nouns from verbs, having the sense of ‘the action or result of what is denoted by the verbs’). Blandish is derived from Middle English blaundishen (“to flatter; to fawn; to be enticing or persuasive; to be favourable; of the sea: to become calm”) [and other forms] (whence blaundice (“flattery, blandishment; caresses, dalliance; allurement, attractiveness; deceitfulness, deception”) [and other forms]), from Middle English blaundishen, from blandiss-, the extended stem of Middle French blandir + Middle English -ishen (suffix forming verbs). Blandir is derived from Latin blandīrī, the present active infinitive of blandior (“to fawn, flatter; to delude”), from blandus (“fawning, flattering, smooth, suave; persuasive; alluring, enticing, seductive; agreeable, pleasant”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel- (“erroneous, false; bad, evil”)) + -iō (suffix forming causative verbs from adjectives).

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