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seductions

seductions is the plural of seduction.

Meaning of seduction

Noun

seduction (countable and uncountable, plural seductions)

  1. The act of seducing.
    • Douglas: Well done on passing the test, Jen... Yes, all those clumsy attempts at seduction. Don't tell me you couldn't see through them. They were a test to find out whether you really wanted to work for me or whether you just wanted to come up here for my body.
      Jen: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, not at...2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6
  2. (dated) The felony of, as a man, inducing a previously chaste unmarried female to engage in sexual intercourse on a promise of marriage.
  3. (plural-normally) A seductive aspect of something; appeal.
    • It is with no small degree of irony that I confess that immersing myself in an interdisciplinary project has warmed me to the seductions of disciplinary perspectives.2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page xi

Questions about seductions

What is seductions the plural of?
Seductions is the plural of seduction.

Words near seductions in the dictionary

  1. seduction
  2. seduction community
  3. seduction theory
  4. seductionist
  5. seductionists
  6. seductions
  7. seductive
  8. seductively
  9. seductiveness
  10. seductivity
  11. seductor

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