adulation
English
Pronunciation
Noun
adulation (countable and uncountable, plural adulations)
- Flattery; fulsome praise.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 3, in The Celebrity:
- Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, ch. 1,
- It is still possible to discuss his place in art, and the adulation of his admirers is perhaps no less capricious than the disparagement of his detractors; [...]
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Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:flattery
Translations
Flattery; fulsome praise
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See also
French
Etymology
From Latin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.dy.la.sjɔ̃/
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Further reading
- “adulation” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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