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Webster 1913 Edition
Seduction
1.
The act of seducing; enticement to wrong doing; enticement to fail in some duty.
3.
That which seduces, or is adapted to seduce; means of leading astray;
as, the
. seductions
of wealthWebster 1828 Edition
Seduction
SEDU'CTION
,Noun.
1. The act of seducing or of enticing from the path of duty.
2. Appropriately, the act or crime of persuading a female, by flattery or deception, to surrender her chastity. A woman who is above flattery, is least liable to seduction; but the best safeguard is principle, the love and purity of holiness, the fear of God and reverence forHis commandments.
Definition 2024
seduction
seduction
See also: séduction
English
Noun
seduction (countable and uncountable, plural seductions)
- The act of seducing.
- Seduction is the fine art of manipulating people based on physical attraction and desire.
- (dated, law, 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.
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Translations
act of seducing
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