Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FLAT'TER-ER
FLAT'TER-ER, n.
One who flatters; a fawner; a wheedler; one who praises another with a view to please him, to gain his favor, or to accomplish some purpose. When I tell him he hates flatterers, / He says he does; being then most flattered. – Shak. The most abject flatterers degenerate into the greatest tyrants. – Addison.
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