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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
blandishment \blan"dishment\, n. cf. of. blandissement.
   the act of blandishing; a word or act expressive of affection
   or kindness, and tending to win the heart; soft words and
   artful caresses; cajolery; allurement.
   1913 webster

         cowering low with blandishment.          --milton.
   1913 webster

         attacked by royal smiles, by female blandishments.
                                                  --macaulay.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
blandishment
     n 1: flattery intended to persuade syn: cajolery, palaver
     2: the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery syn: wheedling
see also:
cajolery palaver wheedling 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
101 moby thesaurus words for "blandishment":
   adulation, agacerie, allure, allurement, appeal,
   artful endearments, attraction, attractiveness, beguilement,
   beguiling, bewitchery, bewitchment, blandishments, blarney, bunkum,
   buttonholing, cajolement, cajolery, captivation, caress, charisma,
   charm, charmingness, coaxing, come-hither, compliment, conning,
   dunning, enchantment, endearment, engagement, enlistment,
   enthrallment, enticement, entrapment, exhortation, eyewash,
   fair words, fascination, fawning, flattery, flirtation,
   forbidden fruit, glamour, grease, honeyed phrases, honeyed words,
   hortation, importunateness, importunity, incense, inducement,
   interest, inveiglement, invitation, jawboning, lobbying, magnetism,
   nagging, oil, palaver, pat, persuasion, pestering, plaguing,
   plying, praise, preaching, preachment, pressing, pressure,
   pretty lies, sales talk, salesmanship, seducement, seduction,
   seductiveness, selling, sex appeal, snaring, snow job, soap,
   soft soap, soft words, solicitation, suasion, sweet nothings,
   sweet talk, sweet words, sycophancy, tantalization, teasing,
   temptation, urgency, urging, wheedling, winning ways, winsomeness,
   witchery, wooing, working on





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