Word: adulateur
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Although the play was published anonymously, the author is believed to be Mrs. Mercy Otis Warren, 47, whose previous work is thought to include three other anonymously published (and unperformed) anti-British satires-The Adulateur (1772), The Defeat (1773) and The Group (1775). Although Mrs. Warren has never publicly claimed authorship of these plays, her reticence may be attributed to feminine modesty. A friend and confidante, Abigail Adams, explains that Mrs. Warren fears that severe satire may be "incompatible with that benevolence which ought always to be predominant in a female character...
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