All 4 Uses of
seduce
in
War and Peace
- It was the story of a girl who had been seduced, and to whom her poor mother (sa pauvre mere) appeared, and reproached her for yielding to a man without being married.†
Chpt 3seduced = persuaded someone to want something (often sex or love) by tempting with something desired
- Mademoiselle Bourienne was often touched to tears as in imagination she told this story to him, her seducer.†
Chpt 3 *seducer = someone who persuades someone to want something (often sex or love) by tempting with something desired
- "And why did she resist her seducer when she loved him?" he thought.†
Chpt 5
- She gave it up just because it was so powerfully seductive.†
Chpt 15seductive = sexually attractive; or persuasive by tempting with something desired
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."