Definition of "cajolement" [ca•jole•ment]

• The act of cajoling or the state of being cajoled. (noun)

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• "It is a life and death game for Hamid Karzai akin to spinning the cylinder of a new Russian revolver, aiming for a cajolement by a western backed Afghan state with the Russian federation -- once its foe -- and to tie the knot for a new marriage as if there was always a sweet serenity in their past history."
• "Barkers bleated out cajolement, encouragement, and condolences in almost-equal measures."
• "But this imperious petulance, curiously as it contrasts with the patience which, a little later, she will display, is native to Ottima; she is not the victim of her nerves this morning, though now she passes without transition to a mood of sensuous cajolement --"