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Literary notes about Entice (AI summary)

Literary writers often deploy the word "entice" to invoke the sense of drawing or luring someone—whether through beauty, persuasion, or even cunning deception. Its use can be both gentle and manipulative: a landscape or a creature’s behavior might be described as enticing, as when pigeons are lured to alight by the sight of food ([1]) or when a cat feigns death to draw in its prey ([2]). At the same time, the term carries moral weight, appearing in admonitions against being seduced into wrongdoing or error, as when a speaker warns against the lure of sinful behavior ([3]) or cautions against yielding to temptations ([4]). This duality underlines a recurrent literary theme: the power of allure that both captivates and imperils its audience ([5]).
  1. As soon as the pigeons discover a sufficiency of food to entice them to alight, they fly around in circles, reviewing the country below.
    — from The Passenger Pigeon
  2. The cat pretends to be dead, hoping by this means to entice the mice within her reach.
    — from The Moral Instruction of Children by Felix Adler
  3. He pleadeth christian liberty to entice to sin, especially to sensuality.
    — from A Christian Directory, Part 1: Christian Ethics by Richard Baxter
  4. My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  5. Send out, send out: from coast to coast Assemble all the Vánar host: With force, with words, with gifts of price Compel, admonish and entice.
    — from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

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