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seductiveness

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se·duc·tive  (s-dktv)
adj.
Tending to seduce; alluring: "his sad and fastidious but ever seductive Irish voice" (John Fowles).

se·ductive·ly adv.
se·ductive·ness n.
Translations
seductiveness [sɪˈdʌktɪvnɪs] N [of person, look, clothes, smile] → seducción f; [of offer] → atractivo m
seductiveness
nverführerische Art; the seductiveness of the offer etcdas verlockende Angebot etc


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The lip-shapes that had meant seductiveness were now made to express supplication; the glow on the cheek that yesterday could be translated as riotousness was evangelized today into the splendour of pious rhetoric; animalism had become fanaticism; Paganism Paulinism; the bold rolling eye that had flashed upon her form in the old time with such mastery now beamed with the rude energy of a theolatry that was almost ferocious.
 
 
 
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