an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone
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Seduction \Se*duc*tion\, n. [L. seductio: cf. F. s['e]duction. See {Seduce}.] 1. The act of seducing; enticement to wrong doing; enticement to fail in some duty.
2. Specifically: (a) The offense of inducing a woman to consent to unlawful sexual intercourse, by enticements which overcome her scruples; the wrong or crime of persuading a woman to surrender her chastity. [Archaic] (b) Any successful enticement to engage in some sexual activity, especially intercourse. [1913 Webster +PJC]
3. That which seduces, or is adapted to seduce; means of leading astray; as, the seductions of wealth.
Earlier on, preparing for her seduction of Sloane, Kath puts on some easy-listening music; and only when Act 1 ends on their sex does the record get stuck in a silent groove.
They respond with exhilaration to the azure sky, the dizzy views. But there is also seduction in the heat.
"France is a wonderful seduction.
As if blaming the Wilson book on Bullitt's "seduction" were not absurd enough, Mr. Gay abandons all historical objectivity and calls it "an extended exercise in wild analysis."
One crowded seduction scene is littered with everything from a book called "How to Drive a Man Crazy" to a jug of Wesson oil.
"Bullitt," writes Mr. Gay, referring to William C. Bullitt, Freud's collaborator in their psycho-assassination of Woodrow Wilson, "proved an able agent of seduction from the straight path of psychoanalytic reserve and respect for complexity."
"The End of the Innocence" (Geffen) _ Don Henley On the title cut of "The End of the Innocence," Don Henley interrupts his seduction of a woman to grouse about Ronald Reagan. Best of my love, indeed.
The difficulty of this undertaking should not deter us, or lead us into seduction by false reasoning like Mr. Kristol's.
An interview is usually a two-way seduction. The interviewer wants good tape: yards of serviceable quotes which display, in passing, his skills as a questioner and background knowledge.
It was instant seduction: a 10-year-old getting his first taste of what would become a lifelong passion for this showgirl of a city.
It was a delicate scene to do because it could have looked very easily like seduction.
The main partners in the game of political seduction are three ultra-Orthodox religious parties that together control 13 seats. They have been offered key Cabinet posts and funding for religious institutions in exchange for their support.
Edgar Neely told U.S. District Judge G. Ernest Tidwell that the girl's mother, who brought the suit, has no legal standing to sue under a Georgia law that allows parents to seek damages over the seduction of an minor child.