NOUN
- the power to entice or attract through personal charm
- the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money)
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attractiveness
its allurement was its remoteness
How To Use allurement In A Sentence
- Contemporary American adolescents have become much more work oriented generally then those of a generation or so ago, mostly because they have been exposed to the costly allurements of a consumption-obsessed America.
- The story of the universe is a mythic drama of creativity, allurement, relation, and grace.
- The story of the universe is a mythic drama of creativity, allurement, relation, and grace.
- The law prohibits conversion from one religion to another by ‘the use of force or allurement or by fraudulent means’.
- A kind of mirage is over it, due to the distance of 5,000 miles -- a mirage behind which we are told to see a happy, rejuvenated country; and a mirage that hides beneath its shade the uncounted corpses of Petrograd; a mirage which conceals from our sight the horrors and catastrophes which communism has meant there, and beckons with a false allurement towards an example from which a nearer vision would make us retreat in horror. The Proper Limitations of State Interference
- And there was the allurement, the gathering of the data; the great critical point where purity reaches dreamy hands towards pitch and refuses to call it pitch -- till defiled. CHAPTER 7
- It was held that the attractive-looking berries constituted an allurement to children for which the defendants were liable.
- The big cities are full of allurements on which to spend money.
- And this soporous allurement is intensified by a dead hush. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series
- Most anti-conversion laws seek only to address conversions "by force, allurement, or fraudulent means. Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: The Question Of Evangelism In India