adulation

From French adulation, from Latin adulātio (“flattery”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌædʒʊˈleɪʃən/, /ˌædjʊˈleɪʃən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌæd͡ʒəˈleɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

adulation (countable and uncountable, plural adulations)

1. Flattery; fulsome praise.

   He was uncomfortable with the adulation from his fans.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter III, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.

   • 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 1”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

     It is still possible to discuss his place in art, and the adulation of his admirers is perhaps no less capricious than the disparagement of his detractors; [...]

• See also Thesaurus:flattery

• adulate
• adulator
• adulatory

• admiration
• adoration

• laudation

From Latin adulātiōnem (“flattery”).

• IPA^(key): /a.dy.la.sjɔ̃/

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adulation f (plural adulations)

1. adulation

• aduler
• adulateur

• “adulation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.