seduction
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Seduction \Se*duc*tion\, n. [L. seductio: cf. F. s['e]duction.
See {Seduce}.]
1. The act of seducing; enticement to wrong doing; enticement
to fail in some duty.
[1913 Webster]
2. Specifically:
(a) The offense of inducing a woman to consent to unlawful
sexual intercourse, by enticements which overcome her
scruples; the wrong or crime of persuading a woman to
surrender her chastity. [Archaic]
(b) Any successful enticement to engage in some sexual
activity, especially intercourse.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
3. That which seduces, or is adapted to seduce; means of
leading astray; as, the seductions of wealth.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "seduction":
abuse, agacerie, allure, allurement, appeal, attraction,
attractiveness, beguilement, beguiling, betrayal, bewitchery,
bewitchment, blandishment, cajolery, call, captivation, charisma,
charm, charmingness, come-hither, corruption, criminal assault,
debauchment, defilement, defloration, deflowering, degradation,
despoilment, draw, drawing power, enchantment, enthrallment,
enticement, entrapment, fascination, flirtation, forbidden fruit,
glamour, inducement, interest, inveiglement, invitation, lorelei,
lure, magnetism, perversion, priapism, pull, rape, ravage,
ravishment, ruin, seducement, seductiveness, sex appeal,
sexual assault, siren song, snaring, tantalization, temptation,
violation, winning ways, winsomeness, witchery, wooing
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