All 3 Uses of
seduce
in
Moby Dick
- For sleeping man, 'twas hard to choose between such winsome days and such seducing nights.†
Chpt 28-30 *
- But if we Southern whale-fishers are not so snugly housed aloft as Captain Sleet and his Greenlandmen were; yet that disadvantage is greatly counter-balanced by the widely contrasting serenity of those seductive seas in which we South fishers mostly float.†
Chpt 34-36
- Lifted by those eternal swells, you needs must own the seductive god, bowing your head to Pan.†
Chpt 109-111
Definition:
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(seduce) to persuade someone to do something by tempting them with something pleasurable or desired -- often to make them want to have sex