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Seduction See also Flirtatiousness. Selfishness (See CONCEIT, STINGINESS.) Armida modern Circe; sorceress who seduces Rinaldo. [Ital. Lit.: Jerusalem Delivered] nobleminded would-be seducer. [Br. Lit.: Canterbury Tales, “The Franklin’s Tale”] Uriah’s wife, seduced by King David. [O.T.: II Samuel 11:4] enchantress who turned Odysseus’s men into swine; byword for irresistibly fascinating woman. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey; Rom. Lit.: Aeneid] fascinating and deceitful mistress of Samson. [O.T.: Judges 16] beautiful Chinese temptress. [Comics: “Terry and the Pirates” in Horn, 653] seduced by Zeus in form of a white bull. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 96] seduced and raped by Lovelace. [Br. Lit.: Richardson Clarissa Harlowe in Benét, 203] de tries to seduce Gawain to test his faithfulness. [Br. Lit.: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]
seduced by Jupiter in form of a cloud. [Rom. Myth.: Metamorphoses] handsome Spanish lad seduces many women. [Eur. legend: Benét, 279] sirens; tried to lure Odysseus and his men to destruction. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey] though engaged to Ham, is seduced and runs off with Steerforth. [Br. Lit.: Dickens David Copperfield] siren; lured ships to destruction with singing. [Ger. Folklore: Benét, 599] innkeeper artfully seduces misogynist for sport. [Ital. Lit.: The Mistress of the Inn] convinces Alibech that the way to serve God is by sexual intercourse. [Ital. Lit.: Boccaccio Decameron] seduced by Arthur Donnithorne. [Br. Lit.: Adam Bede] |
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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. He then proceeded to reject the theory of childhood sexual seduction, replacing it with the idea that reports of sexual abuse grew out of the fact of universal childhood incestuous fantasy. nbsp;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. |
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