Ad/ū-lā'tion, n.

n. [Fr. adulation, Lat. adulatio, from adulari, to flatter.] Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited.

Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation? Shak.

Synonyms—Flattery; compliment; obsequiousness.—ADULATION, FLATTERY, COMPLIMENT. Men deal in compliments from a desire to please; they use flattery either from undue admiration, or a wish to gratify vanity; they practice adulation from sordid motives, and with a mingled spirit of falsehood and hypocrisy. Compliments are often unmeaning; flattery is apt to become gross; adulation is always servile, and usually fulsome. Adulation is practiced by courtiers, flattery by lovers; compliments are used by the fashionable.