Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or practice of enticing or of inducing or instigating by exciting hope or desire; allurement; attraction; especially, the act of alluring or inducing to evil: as, the enticements of evil companions.
- noun Means of enticing; inducement; incitement; anything that attracts by exciting desire or pleasing expectation.
- noun The state or condition of being enticed, seduced, or led astray.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or practice of alluring or tempting.
- noun That which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; alluring object.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act or practice of
enticing , ofalluring ortempting ; as, the enticements of evil companions. - noun That which
entices , orincites toevil ; means ofallurement ; an alluring object; as, an enticement to sin.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire
- noun qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward
- noun something that seduces or has the quality to seduce
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Examples
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An added enticement is that the Tourist Assistance Card includes ambulance service, prescription drugs, legal assistance (presumably for robberies), and reimbursement if your flights are delayed or, heaven forbid, canceled.
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An added enticement is that the Tourist Assistance Card includes ambulance service, prescription drugs, legal assistance (presumably for robberies), and reimbursement if your flights are delayed or, heaven forbid, canceled.
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Recent Comcast enticement is $19.99/month (for 12 months) for “unlimited home phone and Comcast HD with DVR service.”
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To imagine that the United States can stop China from pursuing its own economic ambitions through nagging, threats, or enticement is to fool ourselves.
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To imagine that the United States can stop China from pursuing its own economic ambitions through nagging, threats, or enticement is to fool ourselves.
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Most of the time, the enticement was a cheaper rate, but sometime it was a promise to donate a certain amount per call to a church charity.
Canada Free Press Neill Arnhart 2010
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Most of the time, the enticement was a cheaper rate, but sometime it was a promise to donate a certain amount per call to a church charity.
Canada Free Press Neill Arnhart 2010
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The majority of my tweets are pointers to other resources, so there is a headline-an enticement in other words-and a link to the resource.
ResourceShelf 2009
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We've seen evidence of this sort of voter 'enticement' by groups such as ACORN - where, in 2008, two ACORN workers in Milwaukee were accused of offering pre-paid gasoline cards or restaurant gift cards to people in exchange for registration.
Sharron Angle Campaign: Harry Reid 'Intends To Steal This Election' The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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We've seen evidence of this sort of voter 'enticement' by groups such as ACORN - where, in 2008, two ACORN workers in Milwaukee were accused of offering pre-paid gasoline cards or restaurant gift cards to people in exchange for registration.
Sharron Angle Campaign: Harry Reid 'Intends To Steal This Election' The Huffington Post News Team 2010
shanvrolijk commented on the word enticement
"Salespeople competed for attendees’ attention with posh enticements of moleskin-type notebooks and tote bags"
Source: The most avid believers in artificial intelligence are aggressively secular – yet their language is eerily religious. Why?
January 22, 2018