Read full poem →Does there a spirit we know not, though seek, though we find, comprehend not,
Here to entice and confuse, tempt and evade us, abide?
Lives in the exquisite grace of the column disjointed and single,
Dictionary Entry
To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.
In a Sentence
“She tempted me to eat the apple.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
one tempt
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Poetry examples for “tempt”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Tempt me no more with rosy cheeks,
Nor daze my reason with bright eyes;
Read full poem →Here will I fix the limits of transgression,
Nor farther tempt the avenging rage of heaven.
When guilt, like this, once harbours in the breast,
Read full poem →O Pallas, thou hast fail'd thy plighted word,
To fight with caution, not to tempt the sword;
I warn'd thee, but in vain, for well I knew
Read full poem →But shun, rash youth! the gay alcove,
Nor tempt the snares of wily love. 10
Read full poem →Unbless'd the man whom philosophic rage
Shall tempt to lose the Christian in the Sage: 20
Not Art, but Goodness, pour'd the sacred ray
Read full poem →But shun, rash youth, the gay alcove,
Nor tempt the snares of wily love.
When charms thus press on ev'ry sense,