What is "seductions"

Usage examples of "seductions".

And I believe that without Margaret’s seductions Dolcino would not have damned himself, and without the reckless and promiscuous life on Bald Mountain, fewer would have felt the lure of his rebellion.

And the plebeians have no weapons for refining their laughter until they have made it an instrument against the seriousness of the spiritual shepherds who must lead them to eternal life and rescue them from the seductions of belly, pudenda, food, their sordid desires.

The Devil is stubborn, he follows a pattern in his snares and his seductions, he repeats his rituals at a distance of millennia, he is always the same, this is precisely why he is recognized as the enemy!

A sign that these men are impelled by such eagerness to bear witness to the truth that they do not hesitate, out of love of God, to confer on evil all the seductions in which it cloaks itself.

I thought it was better for my sinning soul to escape an atmosphere filled with seductions, and I applied and was received among the monks of this abbey, where for more than eight years I have served as cellarer.

While I've been at sea with Galilee, ^he's kept the seductions and the insanities of this town at bay with chair .

That wouldn't be such a terrible oath to take: to swear that after Rachel there'd be no more seductions, no more breaking of hearts.

Now he might be able to preserve himself-if he could avoid further seductions, and if the Giant did not reveal his secret.

With the town in disarray he had much to spy on: casual seductions and abject slavery.

The distress in the sound was at least as chilling as the seductions and threats that had gone before.