[f. ALLURE v. + -ING2.]
1. Attracting or enticing to a course of action; appealing to the desires; tempting, seductive.
1577. trans. Bullinger’s Decades (1592), 450. By alluring inticements of many fair promises.
1667. Milton, P. L., IX. 588. Quick’nd at the scent Of that alluring fruit.
1713. Young, Last Day, II. 380. Teach me with equal firmness, to sustain Alluring pleasure, and assaulting pain.
1776. Gibbon, Decl. & F., I. 250. The prospect of the Roman territories was far more alluring.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 712. The terms offered were alluring; three hundred guineas down.
2. Attractive, fascinating, charming. † a. of persons. Obs.
1587. Turberville, Trag. T. (1837), 80. Much given to the love of light alluring dames.
1684. Bunyan, Pilgr., II. 82. Mercy was of a fair Countenance, and therefore the more alluring.
1732. Pope, Mor. Ess., III. 70. Fair Coursers, Vases and alluring Dames.
b. of things.
1590. Shaks., Com. Err., II. i. 89. Hath homelie age th’ alluring beauty tooke From my poore cheeke?
1655. H. Vaughan, Silex Scint., II. 169. Each gay, alluring ware.
1755. Hervey, Theron & Asp., I. 34. The loveliest Colours and most alluring Forms.
1852. Mrs. Jameson, Leg. Madon. (1857), Introd. 31. An alluring and even meretricious beauty.
