Allurement

Definitions: Allurement

Allurement

Noun

1. Attractiveness; "its allure was its remoteness".

2. The power to entice or attract through personal charm.

3. The act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money).

Date "allurement" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Allurement

Synonyms: allure (n), solicitation (n), temptingness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Desire	Cause desire, create desire, raise desire, excite desire, provoke desire; whet the appetite; appetize, titillate, allure, attract, take one's fancy, tempt; hold out temptation, hold out allurement; tantalize, make one's mouth water, faire venir l'eau a la bouche.
	Desideratum; want; (requirement); "a consummation devoutly to be wished "; attraction, magnet, allurement, fancy, temptation, seduction, fascination, prestige, height of one's ambition, idol; whim, whimsy, whimsey; maggot; hobby, hobby-horse.
Motive	Inducement, consideration; attraction; loadstone; magnet, magnetism, magnetic force; allectation, allective; temptation, enticement, agacerie, allurement, witchery; bewitchment, bewitchery; charm; spell; fascination, blandishment, cajolery; seduction, seducement; honeyed words, voice of the tempter, song of the Sirens forbidden fruit, golden apple.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Allurement

English words defined with "allurement": Allectation, Allective, Allurance ♦ Illecebration, Inescation. (references)

Specialty definitions using "allurement": DRUIDS. (references)

Etymologies containing "allurement": Illecebrous, Illicium. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	DRUIDS, n. Priests and ministers of an ancient Celtic religion which did not disdain to employ the humble allurement of human sacrifice. Very little is now known about the Druids and their faith. Pliny says their religion, originating in Britain, spread eastward as far as Persia. Caesar says those who desired to study its mysteries went to Britain. Caesar himself went to Britain, but does not appear to have obtained any high preferment in the Druidical Church, although his talent for human sacrifice was considerable. Druids performed their religious rites in groves, and knew nothing of church mortgages and the season-ticket system of pew rents. They were, in short, heathens and -- as they were once complacently catalogued by a distinguished prelate of the Church of England -- Dissenters.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Allurement" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Allurement" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	6	143,867

Language		Translations for "allurement"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		tërheqje (affinity, appeal, appetence, appetency, attraction, attractiveness, crush, draw, drawing, enchantment, enticement, haul, jerk, lure, magnetization, pull, pullback, recall, recession, recoil, retirement, retraction, retreat, revocation, strain, stretch, tow, traction, tug, withdrawal), ngasje (bait, temptation), ngashënjim (attraction, seduction). (various references)

Arabic		‏جذاب (alluring, appealing, attractive, becoming, captivating, catching, catchy, charming, cute, desirable, ducky, engaging, enticing, fascinating, fetching, fine, inviting, magnetic, magnetizing, nice, picturesquely, pleasant, prepossessing, pretty, seductive, sweet, taking, tasty), ‏إغراء (appeal, bait, glamor, glamour, invitation, seduction, solicitation, temptation). (various references)

Bulgarian		съблазън (lure, seduction, temptation), чар (allure, attraction, bewitchment, charm, enticement, fascination, glamor, glamour, loveliness, lure, magic, magnetism, spell, wizardry), очарование (charm, enchantment, fascination, glamor, glamour), примамка (carrot, decoy, draw, enticement, inducement, lure, snare), изкушение (bait, temptation). (various references)

Czech		vábení (call). (various references)

Finnish		viettelys (temptation), viekoitus (enticement, temptation), houkutus (lure, temptation), houkutin (attraction, enticement). (various references)

French		attirance, séduction. (various references)

German		Lockung (enticement, lure, temptation). (various references)

Greek		γοητεία (bewitchment, charm, fascination, mesmerism, mystique, sorcery, spell, witchery), θέλγητρο (attraction, charm, joy). (various references)

Hungarian		vonzás (pull), vonzóerő (draw, magnetism, pull), báj (blandishments, charm, grace). (various references)

Italian		attrattiva (alluringness, attraction, attractiveness, charm, charmingness, relish, showplace), allettamento (bedding, bribe, cajolery, enticement, inducement, lodging), seduzione (enticement, glamor, glamour, seduction), incanto (auction, charm, enchantment, glamor, glamour, incantation, magic, spell, witchery), fascino (charm, fascination, glamor, glamour, mystique, spell, witchery). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		誘惑 (lure, temptation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ゆうわく (lure, temptation). (various references)

Manx		cleayneyraght (captivation, seduction), cleaynaght (rakishness, seduction, susceptibility), breigid. (various references)

Pig Latin		allurementay

Portuguese		atração (appeal, attraction, glamor, glamour, grace, induct, invent, lodestone, pull), sedução (cajolery, charm, enticement, glamor, glamour, inveiglement, seduction, witchcraft, witchery), encanto (amenity, appeal, attraction, beauty, bewitchment, charm, delectation, delight, dribblet, enchantment, endeavor, enticement, grace, loveliness, medicine, niceness, pleasantry, prettiness, rapture, ravishment, relish, seduction, sorcery, spell, style, witchcraft, witchery). (various references)

Romanian		atragere (attracting, attraction, inveiglement), ademenire (enticement, inveiglement, lure, seducing, seduction), vrajã (charm, enchantment, glamor, glamour, incantation, relish, spell, witchery), ispitire (inveiglement, lure, temptation), farmec (amenity, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, charm, delight, enchantment, endearment, enticement, fascination, glamor, glamour, grace, loveliness, lure, relish, salt, seduction, sex appeal, spell, spicery, witchery). (various references)

Russian		приманка (bait, decoy, decoy duck, draw, enticement, jig, lure). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mamljenje (enticement). (various references)

Spanish		atractivo (affinity, allure, alluring, appeal, appealing, attiring, attraction, attractive, attractiveness, catching, charm, chic, colorful, colourful, cool, delightful, engaging, fetching, gilt, glamor, glamorous, glamour, glamourous, good looking, inviting, kissable, likeable, lure, magnetic, neat, nice-looking, prepossessing, seduction, seductive, seductiveness, seemliness, seemly, sexy, taking, temptation, tempting, whatever, winsome). (various references)

Swedish		lockelse (allure, appeal, attraction, blandishment, enticement, fascination, inveiglement, invitation, lure, temptation). (various references)

Turkish		albeni (allure, attractiveness, blandishments, charm, sales appeal), cazip şey (allure, honeypot), cazibe (allure, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, charm, charms, desirability, draw, drawing power, enchantment, enticement, fascination, feminene charms, gilt, glamor, glamour, gravitation, it, lure, magnetism, oomph, romance, seduction, witchery), büyüleme (allure, captivation, casting a spell, enchantment, enthrallment, enthralment, spell), çekme (allure, bearing, draft, draught, draw, drawing, extraction, haul, haulage, hitch, hoist, pluck, pull, pull off, pull out, shrinkage, shrinking, soak, throwback, towage, towaway, towing, traction, withdrawal), çekicilik (affinity, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, charisma, charm, comeliness, desirability, fascination, gilt, glamor, glamour, it, oomph, pull, romance, seduction, sex appeal, sexiness, witchery), çekici taraf. (various references)

Ukranian		спокуса (allure, bait, enticement, honeypot, lure, seducement, seduction, temptation), зваба, зваблювання, зачарування (enchantment, nympholepsy), принадність (amenity, charm), принада (bait, beauty, decoy, delight, draw, inducement, nest egg, temptation). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự quyến rũ (attractiveness, captivation, fascination, lurement, seduction, temptation, witchery), sự lôi cuốn (affinity, attraction, attractiveness, catchiness), sự cám dỗ cái quyến rũ, cái l� m say mê. (various references)

Welsh		hudoliaeth (enchantment). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	blanditia, blanditium, illecebra, inlecebris, lenocinium. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "allurement": allurements. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Allurement" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ralliement. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "allurement" (pronounced 'Al*lure"ment'): Abasement, Abashment, Abatement, Abetment, Abjurement, Abodement, Aborsement, Abortment, Abridgment, Absentment, Abutment, Accordment, Accouchement, Accroachment, Accrument, Accusement, Acquirement, Acquitment, Adjournment, Adjudgment, Adjustment, Adorement, Adornment, Advancement, Advisement, Affeerment, Afforcement, Affordment, Affrayment, Affreightment, Affrightment, Aggroupment, Agistment, Agreement, Agroupment, Ailment, Alignment, Alinement, Allayment, Allegement, Allignment, Allotment, Amassment, Amazement, Amendment, Amercement, Amusement, Annexment, Announcement, Annulment. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-l-m-n-r-t-u"
	-2 letters: lamenter, numerate.
	-3 letters: emulate, enteral, eternal, lumenal, neutral, numeral, teleman, teleran, tramell.
	-4 letters: allure, almner, amulet, antler, antrum, armlet, elater, eluant, eluate, eluent, enamel, entera, lament, lateen, laurel, leaner, learnt, lunate, luteal, mallee, mallet, mantel, mantle, manure, marten, mature, mauler, meaner, melter, mental, muleta, mullen, muller, mullet, nature, neater, neural, neuter, relate, relent.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-l-m-n-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: allurements.
	+4 letters: intermolecular, premenstrually.
	+5 letters: hermeneutically.
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