Word Meanings - ENTICEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions. 2. That which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; alluring object; as, an enticement to sin. Syn. -- Allurement; attraction; temptation;

Additional info about word: ENTICEMENT

1. The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions. 2. That which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; alluring object; as, an enticement to sin. Syn. -- Allurement; attraction; temptation; seduction; inveiglement; persuasion; inducement.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ENTICEMENT)

• Bait
• Morsel
• snare
• decoy
• enticement
• allurement
• inducement

Related words: (words related to ENTICEMENT)

• SNARE
  An instrument, consisting usually of a wireloop or noose, for removing tumors, etc., by avulsion. Snare drum, the smaller common military drum, as distinguished from the bass drum; -- so called because it has stretched across its lower head a
• DECOYER
  One who decoys another.
• ENTICEMENT
  1. The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions. 2. That which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; alluring object; as, an enticement to sin. Syn. -- Allurement; attraction; temptation;
• DECOY-DUCK
  A duck used to lure wild ducks into a decoy; hence, a person employed to lure others into danger. Beau. & Fl.
• SNARER
  One who lays snares, or entraps.
• ALLUREMENT
  1. The act alluring; temptation; enticement. Though Adam by his wife's allurement fell. Milton. 2. That which allures; any real or apparent good held forth, or operating, as a motive to action; as, the allurements of pleasure, or of honor.
• DECOY
  To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net. Did to a lonely cot his steps decoy. Thomson. E'en while fashion's brightest
• MORSEL
  L. morsus a biting, bite, fr. mordere to bite; prob. akin to E. 1. A little bite or bit of food. Chaucer. Every morsel to a satisfied hunger is only a new labor to a tired digestion. South. 2. A small quantity; a little piece; a fragment.
• INDUCEMENT
  Matter stated by way of explanatory preamble or introduction to the main allegations of a pleading; a leading to. Syn. -- Motive; reason; influence. See Motive. (more info) 1. The act of inducing, or the state of being induced. 2. That
• DECOY-MAN
  A man employed in decoying wild fowl.
• INSNARER
  One who insnares.
• UNREMORSELESS
  Utterly remorseless. "Unremorseless death." Cowley.
• REMORSELESS
  Being without remorse; having no pity; hence, destitute of sensibility; cruel; insensible to distress; merciless. "Remorseless adversaries." South. "With remorseless cruelty." Milton. Syn. -- Unpitying; pitiless; relentless; unrelenting; implacable;
• INSNARE
  Etym: 1. To catch in a snare; to entrap; to take by artificial means. "Insnare a gudgeon." Fenton. 2. To take by wiles, stratagem, or deceit; to involve in difficulties or perplexities; to seduce by artifice; to inveigle; to allure; to entangle.
• ENSNARE
  To catch in a snare. See Insnare.
• SUPERINDUCEMENT
  Superinduction.