The act or an instance of cajoling; gentle persuasion through flattery or coaxing.
From French cajolement, derived from cajoler (to coax) + -ment, a common French suffix for forming abstract nouns from verbs.
Medieval French court life was built on cajolement—courtiers spent their days in subtle flattery and coaxing, which is probably why French contributed so many words about this skill to English.
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