temptressn.
/ˈtɛm(p)trᵻs/, U.S. /ˈtɛm(p)trəs/ A female tempter.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [noun] > temptation > one who tempts > female
temptress1594
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. G The place..was a pernicious curtizans house named Tabitha the Temptresses.
1633 J. Ford Broken Heart iv. ii. sig. I4 Be not iealous, Euphranea, I shall scarcely proue a temptresse.
1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. ii. 42 That the daughter..would, like the wicked wife of Job, become a temptress to her father in the hour of affliction.
1883 G. H. Boughton in Harper's Mag. Jan. 179/1 St. Anthony and his undraped temptress.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1594- phrasaller
- phrasallest
- phrasally
- phrase
- phrase and fleech
- phrase composition
- phrase it
- phrase mark
- phrase marker
- phrase meaning
- phrase repeater
- phrase structure
- phrase structure grammar
- phrase type
- phrase-coiner
- phrase-compound
- phrase-family
- phrase-final
- phrase-form
- phrase-formative
- phrase-initial
- phrase-internal
- phrase-latin
- phrase-maker
- phrase-making