inveiglement
English
Noun
inveiglement (countable and uncountable, plural inveiglements)
- The act of inveigling, or the state of being inveigled; enticement; seduction.
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), 6th edition, London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC:
- the Inveiglements of the World
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Further reading
- “inveiglement”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for inveiglement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
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