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allurement - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun noun allurements of pleasure or of honor.noun
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun noun
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun attractiveness , allure or charisma noun enticement , inducement or bait
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun noun noun
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The KKK focused most closely on dance halls and automobiles, both of which, the Imperial Wizard of the Klan warned, subjected weak-willed women to “seductive allurement .”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
As Samuel Johnson put it: Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention.
Part 1: Netherland,Wood, Smith, and the Truly Great 2009
Most anti-conversion laws seek only to address conversions "by force, allurement , or fraudulent means."
Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: The Question Of Evangelism In India Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2011
Most anti-conversion laws seek only to address conversions "by force, allurement , or fraudulent means."
Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: The Question Of Evangelism In India Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2011
And there was an allurement about it which was as the allurement of sin.
CHAPTER 7 2010
Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention.
2009 January 07 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009
Yet that allurement was especially problematic for them.
An Interview with John Dalton, author of Heaven Lake 2010
As Samuel Johnson put it: Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention.
2009 January 10 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009
Mr. Mansel offers an answer of sorts: The zeal of nationalism . . . triumphed over the 'lust of trafficking' and 'allurement to pleasure.'
On the Eastern Shore Michael Young 2011
And there was the allurement , the gathering of the data; the great critical point where purity reaches dreamy hands towards pitch and refuses to call it pitch -- till defiled.
CHAPTER 7 2010
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