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seduce

verb To persuade a person to engage in sexual activity without resorting to physical force or coercion/intimidation.

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Never was there a more consummate love-making, with all the base intent of betrayal, than this cavalier seduction of Michael by the elderly, six-quart ship's steward.

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Nor could she understand its seductions. Had it been a woman rival, another girl, knowledge and light and sight would have been hers.

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Tom tried one or two other seductions; but they failed, too.

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And the Grand Master appoints the appellant to appear there by her champion, on pain of doom, as a person convicted of sorcery or seduction; and also the defendant so to appear, under the penalty of being held and adjudged recreant in case of default; and the noble Lord and most reverend Father aforesaid appointed the battle to be done in his own presence, and according to all that is commendable and profitable in such a case.

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It could not be his silvery tongue, or the subtle seduction of his manner; he had no more of what is called "manner" than an animal--which, however, on the other hand, is never, and can never be called vulgar.

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We drove sullenly through Brienz, dead to the seductions of its bewildering array of Swiss carvings and the clamorous HOO-hooing of its cuckoo clocks, and had not entirely recovered our spirits when we rattled across a bridge over the rushing blue river and entered the pretty town of Interlaken.

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D'Artagnan reassured her as well as he could, and promised to remain insensible to the seductions of Milady.

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She struggled against these feelings, and smiled, as she thought she was shaking off the last lingering feeling of nature, when the world, and all its seductions, rushed again to her heart, with the sounds of a human, voice, crying in piercing tones:

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But that which was not just was, that, when in England, this woman, by her seductions, completely enslaved a young man in the service of Lord de Winter, by name Felton.

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HB 4160 also redefines the crimes of qualified seduction, simple seduction, forcible abduction, and consented abduction in relation to minors as victims.

Solon files bill raising age of statutory rape from 12 to 16

Breaking a solemn promise !-- -- Seduction is a crime punishable by our Revised Penal Code (Article 338).

Breaking a solemn promise

According to Evansville Police, Kendra Wilson was charged with child seduction and is currently in the Vanderburgh County Jail without bond.