Seduce vs Tempting - What's the difference?
seduce | tempting |
To beguile or lure someone away from duty, accepted principles, or proper conduct; to lead astray.
To entice or induce someone to engage in a sexual relationship.
(by extension, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse with.
To win over or attract someone.
Attractive, appealing, enticing.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Seductive, alluring, inviting.
The act of subjecting somebody to temptation.
* (William Bridge)
As verbs the difference between seduce and tempting
is that seduce is to beguile or lure someone away from duty, accepted principles, or proper conduct; to lead astray while tempting is .As an adjective tempting is
attractive, appealing, enticing.As a noun tempting is
the act of subjecting somebody to temptation.seduce
English
Verb
- Your father was seduced by the dark side of The Force.'' - Obi Wan Kenobi, ''
- Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?'' - Benjamin Braddock, ''
- He had repeatedly seduced the girl in his car, hotels and his home.
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* * English transitive verbs ----tempting
English
Adjective
(en adjective)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; […].}}
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- 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?
