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1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. iii. f.128^v The peruersenesse of our nature enforceth God to the seueritie that he vseth in threatning, bicause he shoulde in vaine call vs alluringly with faire speache while wee lye a slepe.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Faire les doux yeux à,..to frame or set th' eyes to looke alluringly, flatteringly, or pitifully at one.

a1681 R. Allestree Whole Duty Divine Medit. (1694) xxv. 158 How easie and alluringly, O Lord, are we led by the counterfeit and transitory Pleasures of this Life, from Thee?

1769 Masquerade xvi. 117 She made a condescending bow, smiling most alluringly at the same time.

1813 C. Cuthbertson Adelaide IV. xix. 364 She..had arranged her complexion to appear alluringly pale and languid.

1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story II. xxv. 176 On sale at a price which seemed to me alluringly trivial.

1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. viii. 167 And to love Not simply did alluringly incite.

1925 M. Moore Let. 29 Dec. in Sel. Lett. (1997) 220 I remember writing ferociously and much less alluringly of his Green Shoots.

1960 Musical Times 101 98/2 Marie Collier sang alluringly as Venus.

1992 D. Spoto Blue Angel vii. 92 Dietrich was never more alluringly rendered, photographed through an endless series of veils, scrims and smoky filters.

2010 New Yorker 29 Mar. 61/1 Displayed like jewels behind the vitrines at Clyde's was an array of alluringly packaged, ‘prestige’ moisture retainers from five continents.