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Luring vs Tempting - What's the difference?

luring | tempting |

As verbs the difference between luring and tempting

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

As nouns the difference between luring and tempting

is that luring is allurement while tempting is the act of subjecting somebody to temptation.

As an adjective tempting is

attractive, appealing, enticing.

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.

    Anagrams

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    tempting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Attractive, appealing, enticing.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
  • Seductive, alluring, inviting.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of subjecting somebody to temptation.
  • * (William Bridge)
    • If God doth suffer his own people and dearest children to be exposed to Satan's temptings and winnowings; Why should any man then doubt of his childship, doubt of his own everlasting condition, and say, that he is none of the child of God because he is tempted?