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cajolery
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synonyms: beguilement, inveiglement, wheedling ???
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Definition:the act of coaxing someone via flattery
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As has been said, "Choice in marriage is a great match of cajolery between purpose and invisible hazard: deep criticism of a game of pure chance is time wasted." In Diderot's case destiny was hostile.
John Morley. Diderot and the Encyclopaedists, Vol I
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And to cap it all, when Mercedes, with tears in her pretty eyes and a quaver in her throat, could not cajole him into giving the dogs still more, she stole from the fish-sacks and fed them slyly.
Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)
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in wp, in dec1, cDickens, eWharton, georgeEliot, in OWH, jamesJoyce .
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