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tempt
/tɛmpt/
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What does tempt mean?
verb
- To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.
- To attract; to allure.
- To provoke something; to court.
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Nothing could stop his progress, or check his pretensions, if the intoxication of success should tempt him to abuse his victory.
The winds you are going to tempt, have wafted thousands upon thousands to fortune, and brought thousands upon thousands happily back.’
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You tempt me by talking of your fireside, whereas it is a sort of scene I never ought to think about.
At best, the ledge provided by the turret may, at rare intervals, tempt some weary wayfarer to use it as a resting-place.
But these things with Fred outside them, Fred forsaken and looking sad for the want of her, could never tempt her deliberate thought.