Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of alluring or attracting.
- noun That which allures; any real or apparent good held forth or operating as a motive to action; a temptation; an enticement: as, the allurements of pleasure or of honor.
- noun Attractiveness; fascination; charm.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act alluring; temptation; enticement.
- noun That which allures; any real or apparent good held forth, or operating, as a motive to action.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
attractiveness ,allure orcharisma - noun an
enticement ,inducement orbait
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the power to entice or attract through personal charm
- noun attractiveness
- noun the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money)
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Examples
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The KKK focused most closely on dance halls and automobiles, both of which, the Imperial Wizard of the Klan warned, subjected weak-willed women to “seductive allurement.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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As Samuel Johnson put it: Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention.
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Most anti-conversion laws seek only to address conversions "by force, allurement, or fraudulent means."
Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: The Question Of Evangelism In India Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2011
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Most anti-conversion laws seek only to address conversions "by force, allurement, or fraudulent means."
Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: The Question Of Evangelism In India Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2011
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And there was an allurement about it which was as the allurement of sin.
CHAPTER 7 2010
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Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention.
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Yet that allurement was especially problematic for them.
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As Samuel Johnson put it: Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention.
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Mr. Mansel offers an answer of sorts: The zeal of nationalism . . . triumphed over the 'lust of trafficking' and 'allurement to pleasure.'
On the Eastern Shore Michael Young 2011
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And there was the allurement, the gathering of the data; the great critical point where purity reaches dreamy hands towards pitch and refuses to call it pitch -- till defiled.
CHAPTER 7 2010
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