Blandishment
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(n.) The act of blandishing; a word or act expressive of affection or kindness, and tending to win the heart; soft words and artful caresses; cajolery; allurement.
Strong's Hebrew
2519. chalaqlaqqoth -- smoothness
... flattery, slippery. By reduplication from chalaq; properly, something very smooth;
ie A treacherous spot; figuratively, blandishment -- flattery, slippery. ...
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But, if it Does not Weary You, Let the Point Out as Briefly as ...
... Judas came to Jesus and said unto Him, Hail, Master, and kissed Him." Thus through
the soft blandishment of a kiss he implanted the execrable dart of betrayal. ...
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Herein is a Mirror to be Blamed, --If Its Clearness is Darkened ...
... 8. Righteousness used blandishment,"and the rod to deal with childhood;"when she
smote it she roused it; her rod restrained frowardness, her blandishment ...
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hymn ix.
... 11. By the manifest striving, of Thy power let us conquer; lest error should crown,
those that strive for Thee, cleaving to them with blandishment! 12. ...
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Letter xiv . --To the Bishop of Melitene.
... But unless you suppose our language to be mere blandishment and unreal
flattery"and assuredly you will not so suppose, being what you are in all else, ...
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Of those who Pretend to Patience but Excite their Brethren to ...
... and a spiteful silence exceeds the most awful insults in words, and the wounds of
enemies are more easily borne than the deceitful blandishment of mockers, of ...
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How the Poor and the Rich Should be Admonished.
... Sometimes, however, even a proud rich man is to be propitiated by blandishment in
exhortation, since hard sores also are usually softened by soothing ...
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Epistle xv. To John, Bishop.
... In the first place this makes me sad; that thy Fraternity writes to me with a double
heart, exhibiting one sort of blandishment in letters, but another sort ...
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Under the Three Pastors, --There were Manifold Shepherds
... 19. Even the Most High with the daughter of Jacob,"gave blandishment and the rod
to her childhood;"and in her frowardness and full age,"gave part in the ...
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John's Rebuke of Herod.
... There he stands in Herod's voluptuous court the prophet of the desert still, unseduced
by blandishment from his high loyalty, and fronting his patron and his ...
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Galatians Chapter iv.
... And this weeping is not only a reproof but a blandishment; it does not exasperate
like reproof, nor relax like indulgent treatment, but is a mixed remedy, and ...
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Thesaurus
Blandishment (1 Occurrence)
... words and artful caresses; cajolery; allurement. Multi-Version Concordance
Blandishment (1 Occurrence). Proverbs 7:21 With her much ...
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Entices (5 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). Proverbs 7:21 With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield, with
the blandishment of her lips she enticeth him away. (See NAS). ...
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Blandishments (3 Occurrences)

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Blameworthy (1 Occurrence)

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Smooth (39 Occurrences)
... 15. (v.) To ease; to regulate. 16. (vi) To flatter; to use blandishment.
Multi-Version Concordance Smooth (39 Occurrences). Luke ...
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Blandishment (1 Occurrence)

Proverbs 7:21
With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along.
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Entices (5 Occurrences)

Blandishments (3 Occurrences)

Blameworthy (1 Occurrence)

Smooth (39 Occurrences)

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