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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adulation
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Cuba's adulation of its aging communist leader
▪ Harley wasn't prepared for the fame and adulation that came with being a star athlete.
▪ Lewis has gained the adulation of fans around the country.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All year long, the Bruins were living with the fame and adulation of being defending national champions.
▪ But those of us who understand history must shudder at his adulation of the false gods of isolationism and protectionism.
▪ By now he seemed a mellower figure, willing to return the adulation of the crowds.
▪ Forrest may have ended up with fame, fortune, public adulation and the gorgeous gal.
▪ Napoleon showed no reaction to his mens' adulation.
▪ She knew it, and had become quite accustomed to the adulation it inspired.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adulation

Adulation \Ad`u*la"tion\, n. [F. adulation, fr. L. adulatio, fr. adulari, adulatum, 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.

Syn: Sycophancy; cringing; fawning; obsequiousness; blandishment.

Usage: 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. Compliment may be a sincere expression of due respect and esteem, or it may be unmeaning; flattery is apt to become gross; adulation is always servile, and usually fulsome.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
adulation

late 14c., "insincere praise," from Old French adulacion, from Latin adulationem (nominative adulatio) "a fawning; flattery, cringing courtesy," noun of action from past participle stem of aduliari "to flatter," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + ulos "tail," from PIE *ul- "the tail" (cognates: Sanskrit valah "tail," Lithuanian valai "horsehair of the tail"). The original notion is "to wag the tail" like a fawning dog (compare Greek sainein "to wag the tail," also "to flatter;" see also wheedle).

Wiktionary
adulation

n. flattery; fulsome praise.

WordNet
adulation

n. servile flattery; exaggerated and hypocritical praise

Usage examples of "adulation".

It was moments like this, when their smiles and adulation fell on her, that Denise knew everything was worthwhile.

Whereupon the adulation reached fever pitch, the people screamed and shrieked with joy, every .

The boy stood beside the curule chair and looked down at the crowd, this his first experience of the extraordinary euphoria so many united people could generate, feeling the adulation brush his cheek because he stood so close to its source, and understanding what it must be like to be the First Man in Rome.

Wanted Wooton found as soon as possible so the adulation and horror could begin.

And another theory on Smith is he feeds on the female adulation in one part of his lifeand revels in it.

As the adulation showered upon Napoleon reaches a fevered pitch and spurs a movement to name him First Consul for Life with the right to name a successor, Josephine has misgivings.

Priests, not merely of the Thousand Temples but from every Cult, representing every Aspect of God, had clambered from the beaches or wound down from the hills to take their place in the Holy War, singing hymns, clashing cymbals, making the air bitter with incense and the noise of adulation.

Justinian himself, whose vanity was incapable of discerning how often that submission degenerated into the grossest adulation.

For the Kapok Kid, flippancy was a creed, derogation second nature: seriousness was a crime and anything that smacked of adulation bordered on blasphemy.

A guy on a beach lounger was made to get up and offer his seat to Boris, who took off his jogging outfit to reveal an inadequate bathing suit, and he reclined in the glow of adulation.

The applause went on and on as spotlights and laser beams danced across the long dais where Ruer Stross waved clenched fists over his head and savored the adulation.

What avails it then to a heart, simple and unvitiated as hers, to offer the bribe of riches, and to lavish the incense of flattery and adulation.

But wise Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts, decided it would be best that Harry not be raised amid the adulation he would surely receive in the wizarding world.

To a once-fading politician like Barnett, who had endured months of criticism and ridicule and even was booed at an Ole Miss football game two years back, this sudden, overwhelming adulation must have felt like heaven.

Mahayana was accompanied both by a tendency to regard the Buddha as a transcendent, rather than earthly, being and by adulation for the bodhisattva, or buddha-to-be, who would assist others on the path to buddhahood.