Allure vs Intrigue - What's the difference?
allure | intrigue | Synonyms |
The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
gait; bearing
To entice; to attract.
*, II.8:
*:Injustice doth allure them; as the honour of their vertuous actions enticeth the good.
A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison.
To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
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To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
* Dr. J. Scott
In transitive terms the difference between allure and intrigue
is that allure is to entice; to attract while intrigue is to fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.allure
English
Noun
- The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men. — Harper's Magazine.
Verb
(allur)Synonyms
* attract, entice, tempt, decoy, seduceAnagrams
* ----intrigue
English
Alternative forms
* entrigueNoun
(en noun)Verb
(intrigu)citation, passage=Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story. And, on top of all that, they are ornaments; they entice and intrigue and sometimes delight.}}
- How doth it [sin] perplex and intrigue the whole course of your lives!