All 3 Uses of
seduce
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Time was when those brows were not so silkily seductive.†
Chpt 13 *seductive = sexually attractive; or persuasive by tempting with something desired
- If she who seduced me had left but the name.†
Chpt 14seduced = persuaded someone to want something (often sex or love) by tempting with something desired
- give him the satisfaction in any case God knows hes a change in a way not to be always and ever wearing the same old hat unless I paid some nice-looking boy to do it since I can't do it myself a young boy would like me Id confuse him a little alone with him if we were Id let him see my garters the new ones and make him turn red looking at him seduce him I know what boys feel with that down on their cheek doing that frigging drawing out the thing by the hour question and answer would you do this that and the other with the coalman yes with a bishop yes I would because I told him about some dean or bishop was sitting beside me in the jews temples gardens when I was knitting that woollen thin†
Chpt 18
Definitions:
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(1)
(seduce) to persuade someone to do something by tempting them with something pleasurable or desired -- often to make them want to have sex
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
The passive form, seduced can also mean to have won over as in "She was seduced into buying the house by the beautiful yard."