单词 | seduction |
释义 | seductionn. 1. a. The action or an act of seducing (a person) to err in conduct or belief; allurement (to some course of action). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [noun] > enticement or seduction temptation1340 seduction1526 seducing1561 inveiglingc1572 seducement1586 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. biv Some foles..by the seduction or illusion of the ennemy, be nat a shamed to affirme..that [etc.]. 1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. f vii Wherfore by their seduccion, They haue bene the destruccion, Of all true christen liberte. 1536 in State Papers Henry VIII (1834) II. 370 Which Actis bee yit rejectid in the Comon House by the seducyon of certain rynge leaders or belwedders. 1536 in State Papers Henry VIII (1834) II. 371 And all the styckyng [of the act] is in the Comon House, by seducyon of certain prescrybyd. 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 171. ⁋1 Nothing would more powerfully preserve youth from irregularity or guard inexperience from seduction. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. ix. 239 Every art of seduction was used with dignity, to conciliate those nations. a1797 E. Burke Fourth Let. Peace Regicide Directory France in Writings & Speeches (1991) IX. 114 There is no invention of seduction..that has not been increased; brothels, gaming-houses, every thing. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xix. 165 To whom she announced the dreadful intelligence of Captain Rawdon's seduction by Miss Sharp. 1848 A. Jameson Sacred & Legendary Art (1850) 326 Having tried tortures in vain, he determined to try seduction. 1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life ii. iv. 72 An ambitious man will govern himself..and withstand the seductions of his senses. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > [noun] > going astray > condition of being led astray seduction?1531 seducement1605 debauchment1606 debauchery1713 ?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye To Rdr. sig. a2v Knowlege youre ignoraunce and seduccion and retourne gladlye in to the right waye. 1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 112 This ignorant multitude that hath no insight into the Law of God lies open to miserable seduction, and error, and is therein accursed. 1653 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. New Test. 901/1 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [noun] > enticement or seduction > tempting to desert allegiance or a master seduction1685 society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > sedition > [noun] > to desertion seduction1685 1685 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 455 Monmoth..accknowledg'd his seduction by Fergusson the Scot. 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [noun] > enticement or seduction > tempting to desert parents seduction1769 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. Index Seduction of women-children. b. The action of inducing (a woman) to surrender her chastity. (See seduce v. 3.) ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > [noun] > seduction misusement1553 sarding1598 attempt1611 seduction1785 1785 W. Paley Princ. Moral & Polit. 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. 1796 S. T. Coleridge Relig. Musings in Poems Var. Subj. 159 O pale-eyed Form, The victim of seduction. 1817 W. Selwyn Abridgem. 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. 1831 J. Mackintosh Hist. Eng. II. 57 Promises of marriage may have been employed as means of seduction. 1886 Encycl. 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [noun] > enticement or seduction > that which seduction1554 seducement1644 1554 Bp. T. Watson Twoo Notable Serm. sig. Bvijv 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. 1816 J. Scott Paris Revisited viii. 255 The Scotchmen, having but small seduction to return to their beds, became quite inclined to talk. 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella I. i. iii. 83 In this abode of pleasure, surrounded by all the seductions most dazzling to youth. 1844 C. J. Lever Tom Burke I. vi. 50 Amid every temptation and every seduction. 5. Seductiveness, alluring quality. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [noun] > power or faculty of allurement1548 alluringness1606 magnetism1650 allectation1656 invitingness1656 magneticness1663 winningness1727 seductiveness1815 pull1874 seduction1882 pulling power1899 1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights I. 3 The..Prince..gained the affection of all classes by the seduction of his manner. 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