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单词 seducer
释义

seducern.

/sɪˈdjuːsə/
Forms: Also 1500s Scottish seducear.
Etymology: < seduce v. + -er suffix1.
One who or something which seduces.
1. One who tempts or persuades (another) to desert his allegiance or service. Now rare or Obsolete.
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the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [noun] > enticement or seduction > tempting to desert allegiance or a master > one who
seducer1548
slockster1611
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xxiij He receiued afinall reward mete..for suche a rebell and sedicious seducer.
1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. 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.
1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil 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 wrongdoing.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > leading astray > one who leads astray > [noun]
perverser1482
perverter?a1500
seducer1542
inverter1584
debaucher1631
the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [noun] > enticement or seduction > one who seduces
seductor1490
enticerc1500
seducer1542
inveigler1549
miscarrier1596
society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > [noun] > leading astray > one who
seducer1542
1542 H. Brinkelow Lamentacion sig. Diii Ye blynde guydes and seducers of the people.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 352 These seducers, which were about the king, thought they might haue good occasion to put the Duke of Gloucester..to death.
1611 Bible (King James) 2 Tim. iii. 13 Euill men and seducers [Gk. γόητες, Revised Vers. impostors] . View more context for this quotation
1677 J. Dryden State Innocence iv. i. 33 He, whose firm faith no reason could remove, Will melt before that soft seducer, love.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xix. 164 [He] was perverted by Rawdon.., made helplessly tipsy by this abominable seducer and perverter of youth.
1870 W. Thornbury Tour 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. Obsolete.A contextual use of sense 1. Cf. seduction n. 3a.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > [noun] > seduction > seducer > one who tempts child to leave parents
seducer1769
1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. 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.)
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > [noun] > seduction > seducer
seducera1616
woman-killer1654
cousin1694
betrayer1766
ladykiller1769
Lovelace1773
Don Juan1847
wolf1847
Casanova1928
homme fatal1935
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) v. iii. 147 Grant it me, O King,..otherwise a seducer flourishes, and a poore Maid is vndone. View more context for this quotation
a1625 J. Fletcher Rule a Wife (1640) ii. 15 There was no wisdome in't, to bid an Artist, An old seducer to a femall banquet.
1785 W. Paley Princ. Moral & Polit. 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.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ix, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 264 To all questions concerning the name or rank of her seducer,..Effie remained mute.
1874 J. P. Mahaffy Social Life Greece iv. 117 Nay, the peerless beauty Helen excites mere vulgar passion in her seducer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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