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Definition of Allurements
1. allurement [n] - See also: allurement
Lexicographical Neighbors of Allurements
Literary usage of Allurements
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"Artificial allurements. vehemently for a while, yet out in a moment ; so are all
such matches made by those allurements of burning lust ; where there is no ..."
2. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner Von Marilaun (1902)
"allurements OF ANIMALS WITH A VIEW TO THE DISPERSION OF POLLEN. Xext to honey
pollen is the principal food which animals seek for in flowers. ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"... themselves contributed to the calamities of their country ; and he imputed
the in which the Syrians of Antioch could reject the allurements of pleasure. ..."
4. The Life of Lorenzo De' Medici, Called the Magnificent by William Roscoe (1803)
"... but poetry had irresistible allurements for his young mind, and his stanze on
the Giostra of Giuliano, if they did not first recommend him to the notice ..."
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