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Temptation   /tɛmtˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Temptation

noun
1.
Something that seduces or has the quality to seduce.  Synonym: enticement.
2.
The desire to have or do something that you know you should avoid.
3.
The act of influencing by exciting hope or desire.  Synonym: enticement.





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"Temptation" Quotes from Famous Books



... much as she can of the trees," answered the lover; "there's no great temptation to ramble in Singapore. She won't have much more of it, for we must sail in the ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 • Various
... disobedience. All these things the parent might legally do; but it is extremely difficult to discover how far they were actually done, inasmuch as our information in this respect hardly touches the lower classes, while among the upper classes there was naturally far less temptation to be rid of the burden of maintaining such few children as most families produced. On the whole it appears highly improbable that in the truly Roman part of the empire there was any considerable destruction of infant life or ...
— Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul • T. G. Tucker
... to you," replied the young clergyman, "that we talked it over last night, and we all agreed that the actions of the Dunkery Beacon are very suspicious. It does not seem at all unlikely that the great treasure she carries has been too much of a temptation for the Captain, and that she is trying to ...
— Mrs. Cliff's Yacht • Frank R. Stockton
... kicked at it spitefully, but it resisted his every effort; and, overcoming a strong temptation to smash every bottle in the shop, he sprang once more into the saddle, and rode off to the plague-pit. It was the second time within the last twelve hours he had stood there; and, on the previous occasion, he who now lay in it, had stood by his side. He looked down, sickened and ...
— The Midnight Queen • May Agnes Fleming
... commits adultery in his heart, and adulterers shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.' 'What then should we sinners doe' asked the young man. 'Knowest thou not,' replied the elder, 'the word of the Lord? If thy right eye leadeth thee into temptation, pluck it out and cast it from thee; if thy right hand leadeth thee into temptation, cut it off and cast it from thee. What ye must do is to kill the flesh. Ye must become like unto the disembodied angels, and that may be attained only, through being ...
— The Satyricon, Complete • Petronius Arbiter


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