alluring
nounEtymology By surface analysis, allure + -ing.
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The act or habit of enticing or attracting in order to seek a benefit or advantage.
- Was this poor breast, from Love's allurings free, / Cruel to all, and gentle unto thee ?1615, George Wither, Fidelia:
- For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants; so Ahab did, in the end, a little respond to the playful allurings of that girlish air.1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
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- Lookout heights and Smoky Mountains have allurings all their own.1952, Daughters of the American Revolution, volume 86, page 250: