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seducer|sɪˈdjuːsə(r)|
Also 6 Sc. seducear.
[f. seduce v. + -er1.]
One who or something which seduces.
1. One who tempts or persuades (another) to desert his allegiance or service. Now rare or Obs.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. IV, 23 He received a finall reward mete for suche a rebell and sedicious seducer. 1769Blackstone Comm. IV. 160 By statute 23 Geo. II. c. 13. the seducers incur..a forfeiture of 500l. for each artificer contracted with to be sent abroad. 1794S. Williams Hist. Vermont 236 The spirit of defection, notwithstanding all the arts..of the seducers, was by no means general.
2. One who or that which entices (a person) into error or wrong-doing.
1545Brinklow Lament. 110 Ye blynde guydes and seducers of the people. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 352 These seducers, which were about the king, thought they might haue good occasion to put the Duke of Gloucester..to death. 1611Bible 2 Tim. iii. 13 Euill men and seducers [Gr. γόητες, Revised Vers. impostors]. 1677Dryden State Innoc. iv. ii. 33 He, whose firm faith no reason could remove, Will melt before that soft seducer, love. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xix, [He] was perverted by Rawdon.., made helplessly tipsy by this abominable seducer and perverter of youth. 1870Thornbury Tour rd. Eng. I. vii. 153 The mob..proclaimed him..a seducer of the King.
3.
†a. One who tempts (a female child) to leave her parents for marriage or otherwise. Obs.
A contextual use of sense 1. Cf. seduction 3 a.
1769Blackstone Comm. IV. 210 As these stolen marriages, under the age of sixteen, were usually upon mercenary views, this act [4 & 5 Ph. & Mar. c. 8], besides punishing the seducer, wisely removed the temptation.
b. One who seduces a woman. (See seduce v. 3.)
1601Shakes. All's Well v. iii. 146 Grant it me, O King,..otherwise a seducer flourishes, and a poore Maid is vndone. 1624Fletcher Rule a Wife ii. i, There was no wisdom in't, to bid an Artist, An old seducer to a femal banquet. 1785Paley Mor. Philos. iii. iii. iii. 253 note, The law has provided no punishment [for seduction]..beyond a pecuniary satisfaction..[obtained] by the father's bringing his action against the seducer, for the loss of his daughter's service, during her pregnancy and nurturing. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. x, To all questions concerning the name or rank of her seducer,..Effie remained mute. 1874Mahaffy Soc. Life Greece iv. 117 Nay, the peerless beauty Helen excites mere vulgar passion in her seducer. |