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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flatter \Flat"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flattered}; p. pr &
vb n. {Flattering}.] [OE. flateren cf OD flatteren; akin
to G. flattern to flutter, Icel. fla?ra to fawn, flatter: cf
F. flatter. Cf {Flitter}, {Flutter}, {Flattery}.]
1. To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or
attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of esp. by
artful and interested commendation or attentions; to
blandish; to cajole; to wheedle.
When I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he
does being then most flattered. --Shak.
A man that flattereth his neighbor, spreadeth a net
for his feet. --Prov. xxix.
5.
Others he flattered by asking their advice.
--Prescott.
2. To raise hopes in to encourage or favorable, but
sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations.
3. To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of
as his portrait flatters him
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