All 3 Uses of
seduce
in
Sense and Sensibility
- I could not trace her beyond her first seducer, and there was every reason to fear that she had removed from him only to sink deeper in a life of sin.†
Chpt 31 *seducer = someone who persuades someone to want something (often sex or love) by tempting with something desired
- He had left the girl whose youth and innocence he had seduced, in a situation of the utmost distress, with no creditable home, no help, no friends, ignorant of his address!†
Chpt 31seduced = persuaded someone to want something (often sex or love) by tempting with something desired
- She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart; his seduction and desertion of Miss Williams, the misery of that poor girl, and the doubt of what his designs might ONCE have been on herself, preyed altogether so much on her spirits, that she could not bring herself to speak of what she felt even to Elinor; and, brooding over her sorrows in silence, gave more pain to her sister than could have been communicated by the most open and most frequent confession of them.†
Chpt 32seduction = the process of persuading someone to want something (often sex or love) by tempting with something desired
Definition:
to persuade someone to do something by tempting them with something pleasurable or desired -- often to make them want to have sex