enticement

From Old French enticement.

enticement (countable and uncountable, plural enticements)

1. The act or practice of enticing, of alluring or tempting

   • 1900, John Galsworthy, Salvation of a Forsyte Chapter 5

     Suddenly on the far side of the street Rozsi and her sister passed, with little baskets on their arms. He started up, and at that moment Rozsi looked round--her face was the incarnation of enticement, the chin tilted, the lower lip thrust a little forward, her round neck curving back over her shoulder. Swithin muttered, "Make your own arrangements--leave me out!" and hurried from the room, leaving James beside himself with interest and alarm.

2. That which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; an alluring object
   • 1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 4, in Frankenstein‎:

     None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.

• enticement in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• enticement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• encitement

enticier +‎ -ment.

enticement m (oblique plural enticemenz or enticementz, nominative singular enticemenz or enticementz, nominative plural enticement)

1. incitement (act, instance of inciting)

• English: enticement (borrowed)

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (enticement)
• enticement on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub