Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which entices; any one inducing or inciting to evil, or seducing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who entices; one who incites or allures to evil.
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- noun One who
entices orallures .
Etymologies
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Examples
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✒With his arrival on ITV still awaited, Jonathan Ross is already making trouble for a fellow ex-BBC presenter, in a way that won't please the network's director of television, Peter Fincham, himself a scandal-impelled fugitive from the Beeb as well as an enticer of defectors.
Media Monkey's Diary 2011
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✒With his arrival on ITV still awaited, Jonathan Ross is already making trouble for a fellow ex-BBC presenter, in a way that won't please the network's director of television, Peter Fincham, himself a scandal-impelled fugitive from the Beeb as well as an enticer of defectors.
Media Monkey's Diary 2011
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(Voice over): This is enticer, 800 kilos of purebred bull and worth many thousands of dollars but a sucker for a back rub.
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March 10, 2006, 2: 31 am texas hold them says: texas holdthem enticer northernly matchless persuades.
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I would be construed as being under the spell of an expatriat enticer and, doubtless, be about to flee the marital home to the fleshpots of gay Paree.
saturday 2006
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Ere morning dawned he had resolved to break the spell, and for several days avoided the locality of the fair enticer.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various
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The man Ellis, their enticer from the line of turpitude, is a shoemaker.
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921
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Indian-enticer of detested memory, the lieutenant of him who followed -- the Hair Buyer himself.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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Major Hay, Indian-enticer of detested memory, the lieutenant of him who followed -- the Hair Buyer himself.
The Crossing Winston Churchill 1909
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After him came a certain Major Hay, Indian-enticer of detested memory, the lieutenant of him who followed -- the Hair Buyer himself.
The Crossing 1904
Prolagus commented on the word enticer
An enticer (man): a sexy man
An enticer (woman): a trollop.
(see my list)
June 13, 2008