adulator

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But it's clear that he isn't the only celebrity for whom Twitter has changed the relationship between object of adulation and adulator.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bertie Charles Forbes, Scottish immigrant, glorifier of the U. S. businessman, adulator of successful Mr. XXX and potent Mr. PPP, turned suddenly, in the current issue of his Forbes magazine, and railed �against Henry Ford.

From Time Magazine Archive

The duke was his generous patron, and Dr. Preston his most servile adulator.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac

And she!—Has she been less contumelious, less annoyant, less tormenting?—His advocate, his abettor, his adulator, with me only she was scrupulous and severe.

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas

I fear that Virgil was harmed by the Georgican success, and became more than ever an adulator of the ruling powers.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various