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Webster 1913 Edition


Seduction

Se-duc-tion

,
Noun.
[L.
seductio
: cf. F.
séduction
.
See
Seduce
.]
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 wealth
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Seduction

SEDU'CTION

,
Noun.
[L. seductio.]
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

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English

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seduction (countable and uncountable, plural seductions)

  1. The act of seducing.
    Seduction is the fine art of manipulating people based on physical attraction and desire.
  2. (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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