seducer

From seduce +‎ -er.

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seducer (plural seducers)

1. Someone who seduces, especially a man who seduces a woman.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 170:

     But Ted Farrell couldn't stop; that armful of active girl was too much for the wise precautions of a seducer. He kept panting, "Don't be a nark, Cora," while struggling to hold her down.

   • 2020 February 4, Alex Kuczynski, “Philanderers, Predators and Pickup Artists: A History”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Knox takes us through the lives of memorable seducers and their critics, in sometimes academic and sometimes rococo prose dappled with doges, coups de foudre, rakes, bawds, coquettes, coxcombs and procuresses — with guest appearances by members of the Frankfurt School sunning themselves in La Jolla.

• See also Thesaurus:libertine

• seductress

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