Usage examples (6)

• And then the old lady gathers up her work and sails majestically from the room, followed by her weak, trembling daughter-in-law, bent on reconciliation, on cajolement,...
• Flattery, cajolement, humble supplication and the finer maneuvers of tact, all have this in mind.
• They have never gone to our enemies in any numbers; deceit and cajolement have been used in vain; they have had to come to the slave.
• The grouping of figures and emotions at that death-bed was odd almost beyond comprehension; one of the most singular studies which human nature has presented to itself of its...