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Definition of Seducer

1. Noun. A bad person who entices others into error or wrongdoing.

Definition of Seducer

1. n. One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions.

Definition of Seducer

1. Noun. someone who seduces, especially a man who seduces a woman ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Seducer

1. one that seduces [n -S] - See also: seduces

Medical Definition of Seducer

1. One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions. "He whose firm faith no reason could remove, Will melt before that soft seducer, love." (Dryden) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seducer

Literary usage of Seducer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Great Social Evil: Its Causes, Extent, Results, and Remedies by William Logan (1871)
"THE seducer. II. Place the Supporters of Brothels on the same Level in Society with Fallen Women.—I shall now direct special attention to the seducer. lu ..."

2. The Metropolitan (1846)
"THE seducer. BY MRS. CRAWFORD. [Of all the various crimes which spread their ... It would be well were the seducer, before he engages in bis vile schemes, ..."

3. The Young Husband: Or, Duties of Man in the Marriage Relation by William Andrus Alcott (1846)
"Man, generally, the seducer Reforming by kindness. Meddlers to be neglected. ... I have said elsewhere that man is, in general, the seducer. ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"... in whom the Count discovers his adop- law, who has just now perished in the the now wrecked, vessel, by Walter, and miserable seducer of his sister-in- ..."

5. A Treatise on Criminal Law and Procedure by Thomas Welburn Hughes (1919)
"Effect when the seducer is a married man.—When the seducer is a married man, his criminal liability depends upon the woman's belief. ..."

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