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Blandish   Listen
verb
Blandish  v. t.  (past & past part. blandished; pres. part. blandishing)  
1.
To flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole.
2.
To make agreeable and enticing. "Mustering all her wiles, With blandished parleys."





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"Blandish" Quotes from Famous Books



... . . . His guileless forerunners, Whose brains I could blandish, To measure the deeps of my ...
— Poems of the Past and the Present • Thomas Hardy
... constrain'd flow'd from unwilling eyes. Soon as the mother's feelings softening seem To melt in extreme fondness; Procne quits The sight, and to her sister's face reverts Again her visage; then on each in turn Full bent her view, she cries;—"Must one me melt "With blandish'd soothings? Must the other mute, "With tongue dismember'd stand? Must he exclaim "O, mother!—she, O, sister! never more? "To what a spouse, Pandion's daughter, see "Art thou, degenerate wife, conjoin'd! ...
— The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II • Ovid
... you must then blandish him over with a confession, that all your past behaviour was maidenly reserve only: and it will be your part to convince him of the truth of his imprudent sarcasm, that the coyest maids make the fondest wives. Thus will you enter the state with a high sense of obligation to his forgiving goodness: ...
— Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) • Samuel Richardson


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