adulation

[Ad`u*la·tion]

Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited.

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Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited.

Noun
servile flattery; exaggerated and hypocritical praise


n.
Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited.


Adulation

Ad`u*la"tion , n. [F. adulation, fr. L. adulatio, fr. adulari, adulatum, to flatter.] Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited.
Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation?
Syn. -- Sycophancy; cringing; fawning; obsequiousness; blandishment. -- Adulation, Flattery, Compliment. Men deal in compliments from a desire to please; they use flattery either from undue admiration, or a wish to gratify vanity; they practice adulation from sordid motives, and with a mingled spirit of falsehood and hypocrisy. Compliment may be a sincere expression of due respect and esteem, or it may be unmeaning; flattery is apt to become gross; adulation is always servile, and usually fulsome.

Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited.

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I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because I was there. It was weird. Nobody deserves adulation like that. I tried to explain it to my kids once. I said, 'Mommy used to be kind of cool, kind of like a Britney Spears.'

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