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Webster 1913 Edition


Tempting

Tempt′ing

,
Adj.
Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing;
as,
tempting
pleasures
.
Tempt′ing-ly
,
adv.
Tempt′ing-ness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Tempting

TEMPT'ING

,
ppr.
Enticing to evil; trying.
1.
a. Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; as tempting pleasures.

Definition 2024


tempting

tempting

English

Adjective

tempting (comparative more tempting, superlative most tempting)

  1. Attractive, appealing, enticing.
    • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
      It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; [].
  2. Seductive, alluring, inviting.

Translations

Verb

tempting

  1. present participle of tempt

Noun

tempting (plural temptings)

  1. The act of subjecting somebody to temptation.
    • William Bridge
      If God doth suffer his own people and dearest children to be exposed to Satan's temptings and winnowings; Why should any man then doubt of his childship, doubt of his own everlasting condition, and say, that he is none of the child of God because he is tempted?