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
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.
• 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
27 November 2024
(adjective) causing or able to cause nausea; “a nauseating smell”; “nauseous offal”; “a sickening stench”
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