Seduction

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  seduction
       n 1: enticing someone astray from right behavior
       2: an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone [syn:
          {conquest}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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