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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats