Meanings of excessive adulation in английском

Among his associates he made some the recipients of excessive adulation and others of excessive insult.

And society received the young expectant of enormous wealth, as society always does, with excessive adulation.

I answered his letter promptly, in terms of what might have seemed, to the outside eye, excessive adulation.

At one time he was constantly extolling the charms of Lady Wortley Montagu in every strain of excessive adulation.

As regards poems Wallaschek remarks (6) that "the Kaffir in his poetry only recognizes a threefold subject: war, cattle, and excessive adulation of his ruler."