temptressn.
/ˈtɛm(p)trᵻs/, U.S. /ˈtɛm(p)trəs/ A female tempter.
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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.
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