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Definition of Temptations
1. temptation [n] - See also: temptation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Temptations
Literary usage of Temptations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"1 THE SEVEN temptations. ... and we shall yet read in Maga such a notice of The
Seven temptations* as it deserves—perhaps from the same pen which did ample ..."
2. Sermons and Discourses on Several Subjects and Occasions by Francis Atterbury (1774)
"... really to fay, That fome temptations are not temptations; f"or if they are,
their very being fuch implies, ..."
3. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot (1873)
"... BOOK VIL—TWO temptations. CHAPTER LXIII. " These little things are great to
little men." —GOLDSMITH. ' ' HAVE you seen much of your scientific phe- nix, ..."
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