Associations to the word «Allurement»

Wiktionary

ALLUREMENT, noun. Attractiveness; appeal, charisma. [from 16th c.]
ALLUREMENT, noun. An enticement, inducement or bait. [from 16th c.]

Dictionary definition

ALLUREMENT, noun. Attractiveness; "its allurement was its remoteness".
ALLUREMENT, noun. The power to entice or attract through personal charm.
ALLUREMENT, noun. The act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope