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seducer
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seducer \Se*du"cer\, n. One who, or that which, seduces. For a female seducer, the term seductress is also used He whose firm faith no reason could remove, Will melt before that soft seducer, love. --Dryden. 2. Specifically: One who induces another to engage ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. someone who seduces, especially a man who seduces a woman
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Between warring kings, a peacemaker; between adoring spouses, a seducer , or a child. ▪ Charlie was the cruellest and most lethal type of seducer . ▪ He must make the switch from half-baked seducer to ruthless interrogator as ...
Usage examples of seducer.
With him was joined Mr Boffin, the patriotic Conservative who had never listened to the voice of the seducer, and the staunch remainder of the Tory party.
I imagined that I should not have much difficulty in sending her back to Venice, which she might never have quitted if it had not been for her trust in me, founded on the fallacious promises of her seducer.
We went down, and Betty recognized the trunk she had confided to her seducer.
The chief of them is the wife of a tailor, and the other is a respectable young woman, whom I am going to take back to Marseilles, whence she has been decoyed by her wretched seducer.
Your cowardly seducer must pay with his life the penalty due to his crime, and he ought never to receive, by marrying you, an unjust reward, for he is not worthy of possessing you after degrading himself by the vilest conduct.
Be sure, if you are still free, that you can only recover your honour by marrying your seducer.
I had received some parcels upon credit, took out a writ against me, by virtue of which I was arrested and imprisoned in the Marshalsea, where I found my first seducer.
But the news of her seducer having turned a Capuchin friar filled her with amazement, and, passing very sensible remarks on the extraordinary event, she pitied Steffani.
There is no careful series of deconstructionist moves in the narrative of the woman doctor, but she nonetheless undercuts the cherished ideals of male friendship, beats the seducer at his own game, and shows the most cogent, aggressive, and pragmatic thinking in a story that is otherwise male dominated.
Daneel simply slipped in a few details of physical appearance, and an old meritocrat returned to life on Trantora manque diplomat-theorist, seen at many parties but seldom if ever remembered, once known as a ruthless seducer of women who ruthlessly consented to be seduced.
I imagined that I should not have much difficulty in sending her back to Venice, which she might never have quitted if it had not been for her trust in me, founded on the fallacious promises of her seducer.
Alexander, seeing that he would get nothing better from the magnificent republic, sent as deputies Gioacchino Turriano of Venice, General of the Dominicans, and Francesco Ramolini, doctor in law: they practically brought the sentence with them, declaring Savonarola and his accomplices heretics, schismatics, persecutors of the Church and seducers of the people.
When I landed on the wharf, you did not give me time to think how I could find out the dwelling of my perfidious seducer, but you may imagine the impression produced upon me by the sudden apparition of a masked man who, abruptly, and as if placed there purposely by Providence, offered me his services.