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Seduction
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Seduction
See also Flirtatiousness.
Selfishness (See CONCEIT, STINGINESS.)
Armida
modern Circe; sorceress who seduces Rinaldo. [Ital. Lit.: Jerusalem Delivered]
Aurelius Dorigen’s
nobleminded would-be seducer. [Br. Lit.: Canterbury Tales, “The Franklin’s Tale”]
Bathsheba
Uriah’s wife, seduced by King David. [O.T.: II Samuel 11:4]
Circe
enchantress who turned Odysseus’s men into swine; byword for irresistibly fascinating woman. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey; Rom. Lit.: Aeneid]
Delilah
fascinating and deceitful mistress of Samson. [O.T.: Judges 16]
Dragon Lady
beautiful Chinese temptress. [Comics: “Terry and the Pirates” in Horn, 653]
Europa
seduced by Zeus in form of a white bull. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 96]
Harlowe, Clarissa
seduced and raped by Lovelace. [Br. Lit.: Richardson Clarissa Harlowe in Benét, 203]
Hautdesert, Lady
de tries to seduce Gawain to test his faithfulness. [Br. Lit.: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]
Io
seduced by Jupiter in form of a cloud. [Rom. Myth.: Metamorphoses]
Juan, Don
handsome Spanish lad seduces many women. [Eur. legend: Benét, 279]
Leucosia, Ligeia, and Parthenope
sirens; tried to lure Odysseus and his men to destruction. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey]
Little Em’ly
though engaged to Ham, is seduced and runs off with Steerforth. [Br. Lit.: Dickens David Copperfield]
Lorelei
siren; lured ships to destruction with singing. [Ger. Folklore: Benét, 599]
Mirandolina
innkeeper artfully seduces misogynist for sport. [Ital. Lit.: The Mistress of the Inn]
Rustico
convinces Alibech that the way to serve God is by sexual intercourse. [Ital. Lit.: Boccaccio Decameron]
Sorrel, Hetty
seduced by Arthur Donnithorne. [Br. Lit.: Adam Bede]
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I knew that the rector was because he had told me in vivid detail about his sexual seductions of young men in the church.
Time to spring the final closet: gay clergy by Mungello, D.E. / The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
In this volume scholars of the law and social history study bigamy, concubinage, sexual seduction, and adultery and trace the evolution of juridical concepts, judicial practice, and social behavior during the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries.
Trasgressioni. Seduzione, concubinato, adulterio, bigamia (XIV-XVIII ... by Ferraro, Joanne M. / Renaissance Quarterly
In Clark's interpretation, the bold hip undulations as she rode her imaginary bike were more a dare of anger and danger rather than any sort of sexual seduction that might have been suggested by the black leather.
POMARE POWER ENLIVENS OMEGA EVENING by COLLINS, KARYN D. / Dance Magazine
 
 
 
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