“Blandishment” (BLAN-dish-munt) – from the Latin for “to flatter” – is speech or action that flatters and tends to coax, entice, or persuade. The word is often used in the plural.
Example (as used by Anne Rice in Vittorio the Vampire): “And that my English-speaking victims find my blandishments so pretty, accented as they are, and yield to my soft lustrous Italian pronunciations, is a constant source of bliss for me.”
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