Tempt
[tem(p)t] or [tɛmpt]
Definition
(verb.) try presumptuously; 'St. Anthony was tempted in the desert'.
(verb.) dispose or incline or entice to; 'We were tempted by the delicious-looking food'.
(verb.) give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting; 'the window displays tempted the shoppers'.
(verb.) try to seduce.
Typed by Ernestine--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To put to trial; to prove; to test; to try.
(v. t.) To lead, or endeavor to lead, into evil; to entice to what is wrong; to seduce.
(v. t.) To endeavor to persuade; to induce; to invite; to incite; to provoke; to instigate.
(v. t.) To endeavor to accomplish or reach; to attempt.
Inputed by Lewis
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Try, test, prove, put to trial.[2]. Entice (especially to evil), allure, seduce, decoy, induce, inveigle, persuade, prevail upon, draw on, bring over.[3]. Incite, instigate, provoke, incline, dispose, prompt.
Typed by Benjamin
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Entice, allure, try, seduce, attract, solicit, decoy
ANT:Dissuade, deter, warn
Checker: Prudence
Definition
v.t. to put to trial: to test: to try to persuade esp. to evil: to entice.—adj. Temp′table.—ns. Temp′tableness; Temptā′tion act of tempting: state of being tempted: that which tempts: enticement to evil: trial.—adj. Temptā′tious seductive.—n. Temp′ter one who tempts esp. the devil:—fem. Temp′tress.—adj. Temp′ting adapted to tempt or entice.—adv. Temp′tingly.—n. Temp′tingness.
Typist: Rosa
Examples
- How much could it not tempt her to forgive! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- We know how little there is to tempt anyone to our humble abode. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- In my own neighbourhood, no virtuous female friends would tempt me into dangerous gossiping at the tea-table. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- However, I think it answered so far as to tempt one to go again. Jane Austen. Emma.
- She has no money, no connections, nothing that can tempt him to--she is lost for ever. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- But these things with Fred outside them, Fred forsaken and looking sad for the want of her, could never tempt her deliberate thought. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Perhaps 'twill tempt some woman that thy poor carcase had no power over when standing empty-handed. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, Another thing to fall. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But I am going to confess to you, Fred, that I have been tempted to reverse all that by keeping silence with you just now. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mr. Bingley had not been of age two years, when he was tempted by an accidental recommendation to look at Netherfield House. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- From the first I was tempted to make an exception to this rule of avoidance: the seclusion, the very gloom of the walk attracted me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Well, I'm very much tempted, said St. Clare; that's just my difficulty. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But he was not, and he turned his eyes aside, that he might not be tempted to softness. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Young sir, when you feel tempted to marry, think of our four sons and two daughters, and look twice before you leap. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You will allow me the pleasure of bringing you some fruit again, if I should see any that is tempting. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- When they came out through the French window, there was the pond with one tempting little hole in the ice, right in front of their noses. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Yes, yes; the terms, in every sense, are tempting enough, I replied impatiently. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- They are not a tempting subject. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It's too tempting--I'll take the risk, she declared. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- You spare, thin men are always tempting and always cheating Death! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Mr. Pickwick could not resist so tempting an opportunity of studying human nature. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Everything interests him, every object tempts him to try his hand at improving on it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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