Seduced
[si'dju:st]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Seduce
Editor: Shelton
Examples
- By the same quality of the mind we are seduced into a good opinion of ourselves, and of all objects, that belong to us. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- He is seduced into the life of pleasure, and becomes a lawless person and a rogue. Plato. The Republic.
- In a week's time he seduced me down to the door. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- But a politician with some imaginative interest in genuine affairs need not be seduced into the learned folly of pretending that reality is something else than it is. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This does not mean, however, that students are to be seduced unaware into preoccupation with lessons. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But his self-complacency seduced him into attempting a flight into regions of unexplored English, and the reckless experiment was his ruin. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Her plea was, that a soldier had seduced her, she was pregnant by him, and he loved her no longer. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
Editor: Shelton