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Definition of Alluring
1. Adjective. Highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire. "A tempting invitation"
Definition of Alluring
1. a. That allures; attracting; charming; tempting.
Definition of Alluring
1. Verb. (present participle of allure) ¹
2. Noun. The action of the verb '''allure'''. ¹
3. Adjective. Having the power to allure. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Alluring
1. allure [v] - See also: allure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alluring
Literary usage of Alluring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts: Including by John Heneage Jesse (1855)
"In the alluring portrait of her by De Grammont; in the meretricious picture of
her large blue eyes ; of her expressive countenance and faultless symmetry, ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1908)
"One of the quaintest and most alluring romances that ever graced a season's fiction.
More ravishing and a thousand limes more thrilling than 'Susan. ..."
3. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"... not of Frenchmen, but of French principles; that is to say, to prevent the
example of the French from being alluring to the people of England. ..."
4. The Education of Children by Michel de Montaigne (1899)
"T| return to my subject: There is nothing >•- like alluring the appetite and ...
be made alluring many asses laden with books. Learning should wise 7OU make ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Edward Aloysius Pace (1922)
"... The means to be employed for moral training uninteresting nature that must be
done and on sible without religion. alluring that must be avoided. ..."
6. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"1 beasts, who speak great swelling words of vanity, alluring through the ' lusts
of the flesh, through much wantonness, as they that count it plea- 4 sure ..."
7. Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, with Some of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1891)
"... by terrifying enemies—alluring coloration—The coloration of birds' eggs—Colour
as a means of recognition—Summary of the preceding exposition—Influence ..."
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