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Definition of Allure
1. Noun. The power to entice or attract through personal charm.
Generic synonyms: Attraction, Attractiveness
Specialized synonyms: Invitation
Derivative terms: Tempting
2. Verb. Dispose or incline or entice to. "They allure him to write the letter"; "We were tempted by the delicious-looking food"
Generic synonyms: Bid, Invite
Entails: Appeal, Attract
Derivative terms: Allurement, Allurement, Temptable, Temptation, Tempter
Definition of Allure
1. v. t. To attempt to draw; to tempt by a lure or bait, that is, by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract.
2. n. Allurement.
3. n. Gait; bearing.
Definition of Allure
1. Noun. The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction. ¹
2. Noun. gait; bearing ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To entice; to attract. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Allure
1. to attract with something desirable [v -LURED, -LURING, -LURES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Allure
Literary usage of Allure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1902)
"... whilst retaining its richness and its savour, it has shed whatever fails to
allure and to fascinate.' Unique specimens as they are of what was soon to ..."
2. A concise Anglo-Saxon dictionary for the use of students by John R. Clark Hall (1916)
"... allure, seduce, mislead, persuade, instigate, Л5,АО,СР. span-e, -u, pi. ... allure ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... place lights on cliffs to allure and destroy vessels in quest of refuge, so
the Prince of this world lights the fires of false knowledge in order to ..."
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