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Word Meanings - ADULATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. A mere rant of adulatory freedom. Burke.

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  • CRINGLE
    An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc. (more info) 1. A withe for fastening a gate.
  • FAWN
    A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy. Shak.
  • SUPPLEMENT
    The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180°; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle. Syn. -- Appendix. -- Appendix, Supplement. An appendix is that which
  • FAWNINGLY
    In a fawning manner.
  • SERVILELY
    In a servile manner; slavishly.
  • LITHERLY
    Crafty; cunning; mischievous; wicked; treacherous; lazy. He was waspish, arch, and litherly. Sir W. Scott.
  • SERVILENESS
    Quality of being servile; servility.
  • YIELDABLE
    Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
  • BENDER
    1. One who, or that which, bends. 2. An instrument used for bending. 3. A drunken spree. Bartlett. 4. A sixpence.
  • YIELDANCE
    1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South.
  • YIELDING
    Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying , the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill. Syn. --
  • SUPPLELY
    In a supple manner; softly; pliantly; mildly. Cotgrave.
  • COMPLIANT
    Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive. "The compliant boughs." Milton.
  • LITHENESS
    The quality or state of being lithe; flexibility; limberness.
  • LITHER
    Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful. Chaucer. Not lither in business, fervent in spirit. Bp. Woolton. Note: Professor Skeat thinks " the lither sky" as found in Shakespeare's Henry VI. means the stagnant or pestilential sky. -- Li"ther*ly,
  • FAWN-COLORED
    Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown.
  • YIELDER
    One who yields. Shak.
  • ELASTIC
    1. Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic.
  • BENDING
    The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands. Chaucer.
  • COMPLIANTLY
    In a compliant manner.
  • BLITHE
    Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit. The blithe sounds of festal music. Prescott. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton. (more info) Icel. bli mild, gentle, Dan. & Sw. blid gentle, D. blijd blithe,
  • YIELD
    pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
  • UNELASTICITY
    Inelasticity.
  • OUTFAWN
    To exceed in fawning.
  • OVERBEND
    To bend to excess.
  • UNFLEXIBLE
    Inflexible.
  • INFLEXIBLE
    1. Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding. 2. Firm in will or purpose; not to be turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn. "Inflexibleas steel." Miltom. Amanof upright and inflexibletemper
  • BLITHELY
    In a blithe manner.

 

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