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seduction noun [ sɪˈdʌkʃ(ə)n ]

• the action of seducing someone.
• "if seduction doesn't work, she can play on his sympathy"
Similar: persuading someone to have sex, debauching, corruption, bedding, tumbling, dishonouring, ruin, ravishment, defloration,
Origin: early 16th century: from French séduction or Latin seductio(n- ), from seducere ‘draw aside’ (see seduce).


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