Meaning of TEMPTATION
| Pronunciation: | | temp'teyshun
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- [n] the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire; "his enticements were shameless"
- [n] something that seduces or has the quality to seduce
- [n] the desire to have or do something that you know you should avoid; "he felt the temptation and his will power weakened"
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| | Synonyms: | | enticement, enticement |
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| | See Also: | | allurement, allurement, bait, blandishment, come-on, desire, forbidden fruit, hook, influence, influence, leading astray, leading off, lure, seduction, solicitation, sweetener, wheedling | |
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| | Definition: | | Temptation
Unmarried at 29 and passionate about her work as an advocate for the indigent women of New York, Temperance O`Neil has never thought of herself as an old maid. But in 1909, not many people share Temperance`s enlightened attitude. Her Scottish stepfather Angus, for one, has very old-fashioned ideas about how a well-bred woman should lead her life, and he threatens to cut off her allowance unless she moves to Scotland to live beneath his watchful eye. When she arrives at her uncle`s, he gives her a new job: she is to find a proper wife for Angus`s hotheaded, kilt-wearing nephew, James. At first, Temperance thinks the task impossible. Who would marry the boorish James? But soon, she realizes that the object of her search might be the woman in the mirror. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Temp*ta"tion\, n. [OF. temptation, tentation, F.
tentation, L. tentatio.]
1. The act of tempting, or enticing to evil; seduction.
When the devil had ended all the temptation, he
departed from him for a season. --Luke iv. 13.
2. The state of being tempted, or enticed to evil.
Lead us not into temptation. --Luke xi. 4.
3. That which tempts; an inducement; an allurement,
especially to something evil.
Dare to be great, without a guilty crown; View it,
and lay the bright temptation down. --Dryden.
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| | Definition: | | Dreaming of temptations means that an envious person will try to turn your friends against you and cause you much problems. |
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| Easton Bible Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | (1.) Trial; a being put to the test. Thus God "tempted [Gen. 22: 1; R.V., 'did prove'] Abraham;" and afflictions are said to tempt, i.e., to try, men (James 1:2, 12; comp. Deut. 8:2), putting their faith and patience to the test. (2.) Ordinarily, however, the word means solicitation to that which is evil, and hence Satan is called "the tempter" (Matt. 4:3). Our Lord was in this way tempted in the wilderness. That temptation was not internal, but by a real, active, subtle being. It was not self-sought. It was submitted to as an act of obedience on his part. "Christ was led, driven. An unseen personal force bore him a certain violence is implied in the words" (Matt. 4:1-11). The scene of the temptation of our Lord is generally supposed to have been the mountain of Quarantania (q.v.), "a high and precipitous wall of rock, 1,200 or 1,500 feet above the plain west of Jordan, near Jericho." Temptation is common to all (Dan. 12:10; Zech. 13:9; Ps. 66:10; Luke 22:31, 40; Heb. 11:17; James 1:12; 1 Pet. 1:7; 4:12). We read of the temptation of Joseph (Gen. 39), of David (2 Sam. 24; 1 Chr. 21), of Hezekiah (2 Chr. 32:31), of Daniel (Dan. 6), etc. So long as we are in this world we are exposed to temptations, and need ever to be on our watch against them. |
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