Usage
What does enticement mean? Enticement is the act of enticing—attracting, alluring, or tempting someone to do something, especially something wrong or something they shouldn’t. Enticement can also refer to the state of being enticed. Less commonly, enticement can refer to something that entices, as in The gift shop is filled with enticements. Enticement is sometimes confused with the word incitement, which means the act of encouraging, urging, prompting, or provoking someone to do something, especially something bad. Incitement is usually more aggressive and direct than enticement. Example: The salary increase was tempting, but to be honest, no amount of enticement could have gotten me to take that job—it just wasn’t for me.
Etymology
Origin of enticement
First recorded in 1275–1325; Middle English, from Old French; entice + -ment
Vocabulary lists containing enticement
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Enticement enough: Tyner, best known for his work with John Coltrane, has a solid claim to be jazz’s greatest living pianist.
From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2018
Photo: George Poveromo Action and Enticement Depending on the target species and angling situation, I have found that the lure responds to different retrieves with enticing actions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Enticement was added to this offer by providing that at any time within the next five years each share of the new preferred could be exchanged for five shares of common.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the Panic of the Wilderness had called to him in that far voice—the Power of untamed Distance—the Enticement of the Desolation that destroys.
From The Wendigo by Blackwood, Algernon
"This is the Ford of Enticement," explained the Fairy.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
