Seduce vs Unseduced - What's the difference?
seduce | unseduced |
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.
Not seduced.
*{{quote-book, year=1876, author=John Esten Cooke, title=A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee, chapter=, edition=
, passage=He survived all this: lived with so much dignity; silent, yet thoughtful; unseduced by the offers of gain or of advancement however tempting; disdaining to enter into contests for small objects, until the broad disk went down behind the Virginia hills, shedding its departing lustre not only upon this country but upon the whole world. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1915, author=Richard Le Gallienne, title=Vanishing Roads and Other Essays, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Happily one or two--rari nantes in gurgito vasto --survive amid the democratic welter; and all who have at heart not only the interests of literature, but the true interests of the public taste, will pray that they will have the courage to maintain their distinction, unseduced by the moneyed voice of the mob--a distinction to which, after all, they have owed, and will continue to owe, their success. }}
As a verb seduce
is to beguile or lure someone away from duty, accepted principles, or proper conduct; to lead astray.As an adjective unseduced is
not seduced.seduce
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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 ----unseduced
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