adulation
English
Etymology
From French adulation, from Latin adulātio (“flattery”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
adulation (countable and uncountable, plural adulations)
- Flattery; fulsome praise.
- He was uncomfortable with the adulation from his fans.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter III, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- 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; [...]
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:flattery
Related terms
Translations
Flattery; fulsome praise
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See also
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Latin adulātio (“flattery”).
Pronunciation
Noun
adulation f (plural adulations)
Related terms
Further reading
- “adulation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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