WordNet
n. (Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell [syn: Satan, Old Nick, Devil, the Devil, Lucifer, Beelzebub, Prince of Darkness]
Wikipedia
The Tempter may refer to:
- The Antichrist (film), 1974 Italian horror film also released as The Tempter
- The Devil Is a Woman (1974 film), 1974 Italian-British film released in UK as The Tempter
- The Seducer, a painting by Magritte originally Le Séducteur, sometimes translated as The Tempter
Usage examples of "the tempter".
Not Christ, though Christ may have visited him in those dreams of his boyhood, but the Negative, the Tempter, with deceptions and promises.
The Great Black Sea was too close on one hand, and the Tempter's Veil screened off most of the galaxy, and the skies were bleak and empty.
The air was fresh, too, clear and sweet and entirely free of the taint of naphtha fumes, kerosene fumes, whatever they were, which had lain so heavily on the air in one of the worlds he'd passed through: the world his target, the tempter herself, belonged to.
The rabbi knew very well that the Tempter could take on God’.
I know this is the voice of the Tempter, but the Tempter has inspired some damned good stuff.
At the right is Eve, who sees the tempter in the form of a child, offering the apple, and she is moved by desire.