All 10 Uses of
seduce
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- And where he was stationed before, he several times spent a thousand or two for the seduction of some respectable girl; we know all about that, Dmitri Fyodorovitch, in its most secret details.†
Chpt 2seduction = the process of persuading someone to want something (often sex or love) by tempting with something desired
- Father said just now that I spent several thousand roubles in seducing young girls.†
Chpt 3seducing = persuading someone to want something (often sex or love) by tempting with something desired
- Although the old man told lies about my seducing innocence, there really was something of the sort in my tragedy, though it was only once, and then it did not come off.†
Chpt 3
- Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.†
Chpt 5 *seductive = sexually attractive; or persuasive by tempting with something desired
- He was seduced by sweetmeats, ladies brought them to him in their pockets, he sipped tea, he worshiped his belly, filling it with sweet things and his mind with haughty thoughts....And for this he is put to shame....†
Chpt 7seduced = persuaded someone to want something (often sex or love) by tempting with something desired
- Yet he was perfectly aware of a letter she had received a month ago from her seducer, and had heard of it from her own lips.†
Chpt 8seducer = someone who persuades someone to want something (often sex or love) by tempting with something desired
- The talented young man, to whom I have referred already, Mr. Rakitin, characterized this heroine in brief and impressive terms: 'She was disillusioned early in life, deceived and ruined by a betrothed, who seduced and abandoned her.†
Chpt 12seduced = persuaded someone to want something (often sex or love) by tempting with something desired
- He hears all the details from his frightened master, and gradually in his disordered brain there shapes itself an idea—terrible, but seductive and irresistibly logical.†
Chpt 12seductive = sexually attractive; or persuasive by tempting with something desired
- He heard nothing but revolting talk and vicious precepts uttered daily over the brandy, and at last he saw his father seducing his mistress from him with his own money.†
Chpt 12seducing = persuading someone to want something (often sex or love) by tempting with something desired
- But time passed, and Fyodor Pavlovitch did not give the prisoner the expected three thousand; on the contrary, the latter heard that he meant to use this sum to seduce the woman he, the prisoner, loved.†
Chpt 12
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."