seducement

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noun

Seduction.

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Meanings

nounseducement (countable and uncountable, plural seducements)

plural seducements

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableSeduction.
  2. countableobsoleteuncountableSomething that seduces one away; a temptation.

    ‘Begin again where you left off, and endeavour to avoid the seducements that prevailed over you before.’

    1791, James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 337

Origin

From seduce + -ment.

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