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enticings

enticings is the plural of enticing.

Meaning of enticing

Noun

enticing (plural enticings)

  1. enticement; temptation
    • On each soft side [of the White Whale]—coincident with the parted swell, that but once leaving him, then flowed so wide away—on each bright side, the whale shed off enticings.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Chase—First Day”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 604

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Questions about enticings

What is enticings the plural of?
Enticings is the plural of enticing.

Words near enticings in the dictionary

  1. enticest
  2. enticeth
  3. enticing
  4. enticingly
  5. enticingness
  6. enticings
  7. enticive
  8. Enticknap
  9. entier
  10. entierly
  11. entiers

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