SEDUCTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seduction mean? 

• SEDUCTION (noun)
  The noun SEDUCTION has 2 senses:

1. enticing someone astray from right behavior

2. an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone

  Familiarity information: SEDUCTION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEDUCTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enticing someone astray from right behavior

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("seduction" is a kind of...):

enticement; temptation (the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire)

Derivation:

seduce (lure or entice away from duty, principles, or proper conduct)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

conquest; seduction

Hypernyms ("seduction" is a kind of...):

success (an attainment that is successful)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "seduction"):

score; sexual conquest (a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse)

Derivation:

seduce (induce to have sex)

 Context examples 

He was declared to be in debt to every tradesman in the place, and his intrigues, all honoured with the title of seduction, had been extended into every tradesman's family.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart; his seduction and desertion of Miss Williams, the misery of that poor girl, and the doubt of what his designs might ONCE have been on herself, preyed altogether so much on her spirits, that she could not bring herself to speak of what she felt even to Elinor; and, brooding over her sorrows in silence, gave more pain to her sister than could have been communicated by the most open and most frequent confession of them.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

That the manner in which she treated the dreadful crime committed by her brother and my sister (with whom lay the greater seduction I pretended not to say), but the manner in which she spoke of the crime itself, giving it every reproach but the right; considering its ill consequences only as they were to be braved or overborne by a defiance of decency and impudence in wrong; and last of all, and above all, recommending to us a compliance, a compromise, an acquiescence in the continuance of the sin, on the chance of a marriage which, thinking as I now thought of her brother, should rather be prevented than sought; all this together most grievously convinced me that I had never understood her before, and that, as far as related to mind, it had been the creature of my own imagination, not Miss Crawford, that I had been too apt to dwell on for many months past.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)