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noun

Enticement n.

The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions.

That which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; alluring object; as, an enticement to sin.

Synonyms: Allurement; attraction; temptation; seduction; inveiglement; persuasion; inducement.

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Etymology of 'Enticement'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Enticement" Quotes from Famous Books

... the lake, that every breeze up slope brought its compelling enticement. Just in case Hume might awake to a state of semi-consciousness and wander off, Vye tethered him ...

— Star Hunter • Andre Alice Norton

... elaborate shops, whose window contents never seem to vary, wore a listless, uninterested expression like that of a bookmaker during the luncheon hour at the races. Their glittering smile, their enticement and solicitation, their tempting eye-play were relaxed. The cocottes of Monte Carlo at the end of the season could not have assumed a greater indifference. But there were the same old diamonds and pearls, the same old canvases, the same old photographs, the same ...

— Who Cares? • Cosmo Hamilton

... made of is not permanent; but that the souls are immortal, and continue for ever; and that they come out of the most subtile air, and are united to their bodies as to prisons, into which they are drawn by a certain natural enticement; but that when they are set free from the bonds of the flesh, they then, as released from a long bondage, rejoice and mount upward. And this is like the opinions of the Greeks, that good souls have their habitations beyond the ocean, in a region that is neither oppressed with storms of ...

— The Wars of the Jews or History of the Destruction of Jerusalem • Flavius Josephus

... heap of territory. Now let's think. You see I got a heap a white blood in me, and a heap of de Negro too. Slavery did de white race a whole lot a good but it wasn't lastin' good. It did de Negro good, dat will be lastin' good forever. De Negro women protected de pure white woman from enticement and seduction of de white man in slavery time. My grandpap say he never heard of a bad white woman befo' freedom. I leave it wid you if dere's any dese times? Dat was worth more to de South, my grandpap say, ...

— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration

Words linked to "Enticement" : seduction, entice, attraction, leading astray, solicitation, forbidden fruit, temptation, attractiveness, allurement, wheedling, influence, lure, hook, come-on, sweetener, blandishment, leading off, bait