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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Seduction \Se*duc*tion\, noun [L. seductio: cf. F. s['e]duction. See {Seduce}.]
1. The act of seducing; enticement to wrong doing; enticement to fail in some duty.
2. Specifically: (a) The offense of inducing a woman to consent to unlawful sexual intercourse, by enticements which overcome her scruples; the wrong or crime of persuading a woman to surrender her chastity. [Archaic] (b) Any successful enticement to engage in some sexual activity, especially intercourse. [1913 Webster +PJC]
3. That which seduces, or is adapted to seduce; means of leading astray; as, the seductions of wealth.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
seduction
noun
1: enticing someone astray from right behavior
2: an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone [syn: {conquest}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "seduction": abuse, agacerie, allure, allurement, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, beguilement, beguiling, betrayal, bewitchery, bewitchment, blandishment, cajolery, call, captivation, charisma, charm, charmingness, come-hither, corruption, criminal assault, debauchment, defilement, defloration, deflowering, degradation, despoilment, draw, drawing power, enchantment, enthrallment, enticement, entrapment, fascination, flirtation, forbidden fruit, glamour, inducement, interest, inveiglement, invitation, lorelei, lure, magnetism, perversion, priapism, pull, rape, ravage, ravishment, ruin, seducement, seductiveness, sex appeal, sexual assault, siren song, snaring, tantalization, temptation, violation, winning ways, winsomeness, witchery, wooing
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