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- noun Plural form of
seducement .
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Examples
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The inhabitants of Col have not yet learned to be weary of their heath and rocks, but attend their agriculture and their dairies, without listening to American seducements.
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The seducements of the spirit of the world, either immediately by himself or mediately by others, are the voice of strangers.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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These objects and these seducements, from our very situation are entirely precluded.
North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History Charles Lee 1915
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None was more open than he to the seducements of luxurious living, the polish of manners, the tacit exclusion of all that is ugly or distressing; but it seemed to him that fine living should be but the flower of fine feeling, and that such external graces, when they adorned a dull and vapid society, were as incongruous as the royal purple on a clown.
The Valley of Decision Edith Wharton 1899
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Begin again where you left off, and endeavour to avoid the seducements that prevailed over you before.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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The nymphs 'seducements and the magic bower, as they existed at the period of the first intercourse between the
The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences Sir John Barrow 1806
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It is really pity ever to quit the sweet seducements of a place so pleasing; which attracts the inclination and flatters the vanity of one, who, like myself, has received the most polite attentions, and been diverted with every amusement that could be devised.
Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I Hester Lynch Piozzi 1781
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Begin again where you left off, and endeavour to avoid the seducements that prevailed over you before.
Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 James Boswell 1767
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The inhabitants of Col have not yet learned to be weary of their heath and rocks, but attend their agriculture and their dairies, without listening to American seducements.
Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland Samuel Johnson 1746
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When therefore any sharp pain is to be suffered, or any formidable danger to be incurred, we can scarcely exempt ourselves wholly from the seducements of imagination; we readily believe that another day will bring some support or advantage which we now want; and are easily persuaded, that the moment of necessity which we desire never to arrive, is at a great distance from us.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746
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