SEDUCTION

seduction

(noun) enticing someone astray from right behavior

seduction, conquest

(noun) an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

seduction (countable and uncountable, plural seductions)

The act of seducing.

(dated, legal, in English common law) The felony of, as a man, inducing a previously chaste unmarried female to engage in sexual intercourse on a promise of marriage.

Anagrams

• eductions, suctioned

Source: Wiktionary


Se*duc*tion, n. Etym: [L. seductio: cf. F. séduction. See Seduce.]

1. 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.

2. That which seduces, or is adapted to seduce; means of leading astray; as, the seductions of wealth.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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