NOUN
- the power to entice or attract through personal charm
- the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money)
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attractiveness
its allurement was its remoteness
How To Use allurement In A Sentence
- But my proud one doth worke the greater scath, through sweet allurement of her louely hew: that she the better may in bloody bath, of such poore thralls her cruell hands embrew. Amoretti and Epithalamion
- Happiness is a transient condition that vanishes the moment it's in your grip, when another allurement emerges that goads you on inexorably.
- And at every clearing I flew more furiously, thinking to seize all of her with my gaze before she could cross the glade; but ever she found some little low tree, some bush of birch ungrown, or the far top branches of the next grove to screen her flying body and preserve allurement. The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays
- Christian use; and stand condemned by us, not as evil in themselves, but as allurements and baits of superstition to those vulgar heads that look asquint on the face of truth, and those unstable judgments that cannot resist in the narrow point and centre of virtue without a reel or stagger to the circumference. Religio Medici
- Our minds are bombarded daily by worldly cares, temptations and allurements that draw us away from Christ and his Word.
- The story of the universe is a mythic drama of creativity, allurement, relation, and grace.
- Good men are afraid of sin, and are in care to prevent it; and the most effectual way to prevent is to hide God's word in our hearts, that we may answer every temptation, as our Master did, with, It is written, may oppose God's precepts to the dominion of sin, his promises to its allurements, and his threatenings to its menaces. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
- Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. 2009 January 07 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
- And there was an allurement about it which was as the allurement of sin. CHAPTER 7
- That is not the dukes letter, sir; that is an advertisement to a proper maid in Florence, one Diana, to take heed of the allurement of one Count Rousillon, a foolish idle boy, but for all that very ruttish. Act IV. Scene III. All’s Well that Ends Well