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excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
Origin:
Middle English < Middle French < Latin adūlātiōn- (stem of adūlātiō) servile flattery, fawning, equivalent to adūlāt(us), past participle of adūlārī, -āre to fawn upon (of dogs), apparently a nominal derivative, with ad- ad-, of an otherwise unattested base + -iōn- -ion
Middle English < Middle French < Latin adūlātiōn- (stem of adūlātiō) servile flattery, fawning, equivalent to adūlāt(us), past participle of adūlārī, -āre to fawn upon (of dogs), apparently a nominal derivative, with ad- ad-, of an otherwise unattested base + -iōn- -ion
Related forms
self-ad·u·la·tion, noun
self-ad·u·la·to·ry, adjective
un·ad·u·lat·ing, adjective
un·ad·u·la·to·ry, adjective
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Example Sentences
- Presley was once the object of such adulation that teen-age girls screamed and fainted at the sight of him.
- On a wave of adulation he rode to the governor's mansion where he had lived years ago.
- The kind of adulation and scrutiny he received made that conversation awkward for me.
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Word Origin & History
adulation
late 14c., from O.Fr. adulacion, from L. adulationem (nom. adulatio), from adulatus, pp. of aduliari "to flatter," from ad- "to" + ulos "tail," from PIE *ul- "the tail" (cf. Skt. valah "tail," Lith. valai "horsehair of the tail"). The original notion is "to wag the tail" like a fawning dog (cf. Gk.
EXPAND sainein "to wag the tail," also "to flatter;" see also wheedle).
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