Monday 12th September 2016
Blandishment [blan-dish-muh nt]
1. Often, blandishments. something, as an action or speech, that tends
to flatter, coax, entice, etc.:
Our blandishments left him unmoved. We succumbed to the blandishments of tropical living.
Quote
This daughter or Atlas has got hold of poor unhappy Ulysses, and keeps trying by
every kind of blandishment to make him forget his home, so that he is tired of
life, and thinks nothing but how he may once more see the smoke of his own
chimneys.
Homer, The Odyssey translated by Samuel Butler, 1900
Origin
Blandishment and its etymon blandish can be traced to the Latin blandīrī
meaning "to soothe, flatter." It entered English in the late 1500’s.
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