alluringnessn.

1606 T. Palmer Ess. Meanes to make Trauailes more Profitable ii. 65 What vnciuilitie and alluringnesse to lust, do their Curtizans in gesture and apparell vse?

1682 J. Howe Funeral Serm. 51 His..Ministerial Performances had that..softness, gentleness, sweetness, alluringness..that one would think it scarce possible to resist the Spirit and Power wherewith he spake.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Alluringness, inticingness.

1827 J. Rush Philos. Human Voice xliii. 367 These significant and expressive elements, have, through pitch and time and stress, an alluringness to the ear, which constitutes the defined character of accent.

1864 A. V. Kirwan Host & Guest xx. 301 A girl about eighteen, tall, fair, and well-proportioned, her features beaming with an air of engaging alluringness, appears.

1891 E. Dowson Let. 10 May (1967) 197 You may remember its alluringness.

1929 Ann. Amer. Schools Oriental Res. 9 46 So beguiling indeed are the possibilities..that their very alluringness calls for great caution in operating with them.

1955 J. B. Cabell As I remember It ii. xxii. 126 I was old enough to be her father. And yet other lacks of alluringness upon my part seemed a large deal too visible to the eyes of honesty.

1996 H. Fielding Bridget Jones's Diary (1997) 73 The way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him.