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What does it mean when you dream about seduction?

Seduction in a dream often is an expression of the dreamer’s sexual desires.

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]

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]

References in periodicals archive ?

But this man genuinely believed he was seduced by a paranormal entity.

RANDY GHOSTS ARE SEDUCING WELSH DRIVERS; Paranormal investigator claims he is following up a spate of drivers lured by hitchhiking ghouls

He said: "This is against all the council's policies but is still being pushed through because the council is being seduced with jobs.

'Don't let jobs seduce you into pounds 100m plan'

A movie insider told Britain's Daily Mail newspaper: "It's fair to say we were seduced by her and we should have been on our guard."

Seductive Natalie walks out on film role

"There are too many young people who get seduced by people telling them they can have everything.

Meanwhile, back at the crypt: new black vampire and horror tales are so sexy

The Mercury previously revealed how Bevan seduced Jane and conducted a steamy affair under the noses of other patients and her husband.

RANDY DOCTOR 'WANTS HIS JOB BACK' He plans to return when ban ends, says ex-lover

In fact, the prophet cries out in lament, "O Lord, You seduced me, and I was seduced" (20:7).

Fifth Sunday after Pentecost (proper 7): June 19, 2005

Instead it's a question of working through political issues as well as being seduced by the actual form, a question of provoking and seducing.

1000 words: Yinka Shonibare; Talks about Un Ballo in Maschera, 2004

Lewis (26), seduced the girl in the meeting room of the north London tennis club where she had been sent by her father for coaching.

Depraved tennis coach jailed for sex with girl, 15

James Smith, who also lives in the city, made the film Seduced, a mixture of computer generated 3D animation and live action, before he left the film school last year with a degree in animation.

Smith is short-listed

Mother Derby, who owned a property next to Eden, seduced the students with goodies like raspberries, cream, and brown sugar.

Memories

This view has invariably seduced architects when imaging and planning utopian cities.