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Webster 1913 Edition
Tempting
Tempt′ing
,Adj.
Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing;
– as,
. tempting
pleasuresTempt′ing-ly
, adv.
Tempt′ing-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Tempting
TEMPT'ING
,ppr.
1.
a. Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; as tempting pleasures.Definition 2024
tempting
tempting
English
Adjective
tempting (comparative more tempting, superlative most tempting)
- 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; […].
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- Seductive, alluring, inviting.
Translations
attractive, appealing, enticing
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seductive, alluring, inviting
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Verb
tempting
- present participle of tempt
Noun
tempting (plural temptings)
- 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?
- William Bridge