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Alluring vs Luring - What's the difference?

alluring | luring |

As verbs the difference between alluring and luring

is that alluring is present participle of lang=en while luring is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between alluring and luring

is that alluring is the action of the verb allure while luring is allurement.

As an adjective alluring

is having the power to allure.

alluring

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb allure .

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the power to allure.
  • *
    • Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile?; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.

    luring

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • allurement
  • * 1988 , Ruth Salvaggio, Enlightened Absence: Neoclassical Configurations of the Feminine
    • Perhaps the most striking instance of this desired appropriation of color, particularly the color that Pope associated with nature and, through nature, with the muse and all her feminine lurings , can be found in Windsor-Forest
  • * 2004 , Adam Edwards, Peter Gill, Transnational Organised Crime: Perspectives on Global Security
    • carry on with all their endeavours for many months or even years, building up a reputation of invulnerability in the process and thus presenting a bad example to those susceptible to the seemingly profitable lurings of crime.

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