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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] Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | Never was there a more consummate love-making, with all the base intent of betrayal, than this cavalier seduction of Michael by the elderly, six-quart ship's steward. ``Rebecca, a Jewess, daughter of Isaac of York, being attainted of sorcery, seduction, and other damnable practices, practised on a Knight of the most Holy Order of the Temple of Zion, doth deny the same; and saith, that the testimony delivered against her this day is false, wicked, and disloyal; and that by lawful essoine* of her body as being If it were necessary to confirm so plain a truth by facts, examples would not be wanting, even in this country, of the intimidation or seduction of the Executive by the terrors or allurements of the pecuniary arrangements of the legislative body. |
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