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seducement Obs. or rare.|sɪˈdjuːsmənt|
[f. seduce v. + -ment.]
1. The action of seducing.
1586A. Day Eng. Secretary i. (1625) 32 Persuasion to mischiefe and seducement from the good. 1602W. Fulbecke Pandects 72 Some Merchants may sowe bad seede, euen the seede of seducement of the Princes lieges. 1642J. M. Argt. conc. Militia 15 Upon the advice and seducement of evill Counsellors. 1646J. Temple Irish Rebellion 54 A multitude..by the wicked seducement of the first Conspirators had been drawn on to dispoile their English neighbours. 1709Stanhope Paraphr. IV. 268 In all Seducement the Tempter plays our own Artillery upon us. 1751Hurd Hor. Ep. ad August. 19 What contributed to this prostitution of the comic muse, was the seducement of that corruptress of all virtue, the love of money. 1785T. Potter Moralist II. 2, I will stoutly withstand the seducement of Epicurean companions.
2. Something which seduces or serves as a means of seduction; an insidious temptation.
1644Milton Educ. 4 Ere any flattering seducement, or vain principle seise them wandering. 1659Gentl. Calling 418 To do this amidst all the seducements of wealth. 1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France I. 220 The sweet seducements of a place so pleasing. 1817Jas. Mill Brit. India I. iii. iv. 534 The seducements of luxury and ease.
3. The fact or condition of being seduced.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. ii. §4 Those particular seducements or indispositions of the minde for policie and gouernement, which learning is pretended to insinuate. Ibid. ii. xiii. §3. 1642 J. Winthrop Hist. New-Eng. (1826) II. 62 He made a very full and free acknowledgment of his errour and seducement. 1658T. Wall Charact. Enemies Ch. 45 They are roaring Bulls: with what strained throats do they stund the giddy multitude into wonder and seducement? 1690tr. Five Lett. Inspiration 191 The Apostle foretels their Seducement should not long continue. |