Blandishment
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.
Historical Examples
Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) John Addington Symonds
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 18, 1893 Various
Knowledge is Power: Charles Knight
Gerald Fitzgerald Charles James Lever
Charities and the Commons: The Pittsburgh Survey, Part I: The People Various
The Last American Frontier Frederic L. (Frederic Logan) Paxson
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy
The Journal of a Disappointed Man Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion
A Terrible Temptation Charles Reade
Shanty the Blacksmith; A Tale of Other Times Mrs. Sherwood [AKA: Mrs. Mary Martha Sherwood]
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