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seduction|sɪˈdʌkʃən|
Also 6 seduccion, -yon.
[a. F. séduction, ad. L. sēductiōn-em, n. of action f. sēdūcĕre to seduce. Cf. Sp. seduccion, Pg. seducção, It. seduzione.]
1. The action or an act of seducing (a person) to err in conduct or belief; allurement (to some course of action).
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 272 b, Some fooles..by the seduccyon or illusyon of the ennemy be not ashamed to affirme..that [etc.]. 1528Roy Rede me (Arb.) 89 Wherfore by their seduccion They haue bene the destruccion Of all true christen liberte. 1536St. Papers Hen. VIII, II. 370 Which Actis bee yit rejectid in the Comon House by the seducyon of certain rynge leaders or belwedders. Ibid. 371 And all the styckyng [of the act] is in the Comon House, by seducyon of certain prescrybyd. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 171 ⁋1 Nothing would more powerfully preserve youth from irregularity or guard inexperience from seduction. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. ix. I. 239 Every art of seduction was used with dignity, to conciliate those nations. 1796Burke Regic. Peace Wks. IX. 117 There is no invention of seduction..that has not been increased; brothels, gaming-houses, every thing. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xix, To whom she announced the dreadful intelligence of Captain Rawdon's seduction by Miss Sharp. 1848A. Jameson Sacr. & Leg. Art (1850) 326 Having tried tortures in vain, he determined to try seduction. 1873Hamerton Intell. Life ii. iv. 72 An ambitious man will govern himself..and withstand the seductions of his senses.
†b. The condition of being led astray.
1533Frith Wks. (1572) 3/1 To Rdr., Knowledge your ignoraunce and seduction, and returne gladly into the right way. 1633Bp. Hall Hard Texts, N.T. 112 This ignorant multitude that hath no insight into the Law of God lies open to miserable seduction, and error, and is therein accursed. 1653Hammond Annot. N.T. Jude v. 11 (1659) 851/2 For this was the πλάνη τοῦ βαλαὰµ, the seduction into which Balaam brought the Israelites.
2. The persuading (of a subject, soldier, etc.) to desert his allegiance or service.
a1700Evelyn Diary 15 July 1685, Monmouth..acknowledged his seduction by Ferguson the Scot.
3.
†a. The action of tempting (a female child) to leave her parents for marriage or otherwise. (Cf. seducer 3 a.) Obs.
1769Blackstone Comm. IV. Index, Seduction of women-children.
b. The action of inducing (a woman) to surrender her chastity. (See seduce v. 3.)
1785Paley Mor. Philos. iii. iii. iii. 250 Seduction is seldom accomplished without fraud; and the fraud is by so much more criminal than other frauds, as injury effected by it is greater. 1794Coleridge Relig. Musings 282 O pale-eyed form, The victim of seduction. 1817W. Selwyn Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 1040 note, If the injury of seduction is accompanied with an illegal entry of the house of the parent. 1831Mackintosh Hist. Eng. II. 57 Promises of marriage may have been employed as means of seduction. 1886Encycl. Brit. XXI. 621 The action for seduction of an unmarried woman in England stands in a somewhat anomalous position. The theory of English law is that the woman herself has suffered no wrong; the wrong has been suffered by the parent or person in loco parentis, who must sue for the damage arising from the loss of service caused by the seduction of the woman.
4. Something which seduces; a cause of error; an allurement.
1554T. Watson Two Serm. bef. Queen B vij b, The true sense, which is only knowen bi the tradition and consent of the catholike churche: so that the one without the other is not a direction, but a seduction, to a symple man. 1817J. Scott Paris Revisit. (ed. 4) 255 The Scotchmen, having but small seduction to return to their beds, became quite inclined to talk. 1838Prescott Ferd. & Is. (1846) I. iii. 167 In this abode of pleasure, surrounded by all the seductions most dazzling to youth. 1844Lever T. Burke vi, Amid every temptation and every seduction.
5. Seductiveness, alluring quality. rare—1.
1882Stevenson New Arab. Nts. (1884) 1 The Prince..gained the affection of all classes by the seduction of his manner. |