Seduction
[sɪ'dʌkʃ(ə)n] or [sɪ'dʌkʃən]
Definition
(noun.) enticing someone astray from right behavior.
(noun.) an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone.
Typed by Bartholdi--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of seducing; enticement to wrong doing; specifically, the offense of inducing a woman to consent to unlawful sexual intercourse, by enticements which overcome her scruples; the wrong or crime of persuading a woman to surrender her chastity.
(n.) That which seduces, or is adapted to seduce; means of leading astray; as, the seductions of wealth.
Edited by Christine
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Enticement, allurement, seducement, solicitation, attraction, temptation, witchery.[2]. Lure, decoy, bait.
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Examples
- Now, gentle readers, after this long digression, you shall hear of the shocking seduction of the present Viscountess Berwick by Viscount Deerhurst! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It is indeed my firm belief that she went away with Lord Deerhurst, being innocent as an infant as to the nature of seduction and its consequence. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- That done you are fairly proof against seduction. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- By-and-by I shall go on as quietly as possible: I have no seductions now away from home and work. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- How great a part the desolating loneliness of a city plays in seductions the individual histories in the report show. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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