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tempter

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Noun
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Tempt=er

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun tempter has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

temptern. 
     One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil.  Tillotson.  [1913 Webster]
    "So glozed the Tempter, and his proem tuned."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tempter, n. (fem. temptress)
1 a person who tempts.
2 (the Tempter) the Devil.

Etymology
ME f. OF tempteur f. eccl.L temptator -oris (as TEMPT)

THESAURUS

tempter

Circe, Don Juan, Lorelei, Parthenope, Siren, abettor, actuator, animator, cajoler, charmer, coax, coaxer, coquette, enchanter, enchantress, encourager, energizer, enticer, femme fatale, firer, flirt, gadfly, galvanizer, impeller, inducer, inspirer, inveigler, mover, moving spirit, persuader, pleader, prime mover, prompter, seducer, seductress, siren, spark, spark plug, sparker, stimulator, teaser, temptress, vamp, vampire, wheedler

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tempter

Motive

N motive, springs of action, wellsprings of action, reason, ground, call, principle, by end, by purpose, mainspring, primum mobile, keystone, the why and the wherefore, pro and con, reason why, secret motive, arriere pensee, intention, inducement, consideration, attraction, loadstone, magnet, magnetism, magnetic force, allectation, allective, temptation, enticement, agacerie, allurement, witchery, bewitchment, bewitchery, charm, spell, fascination, blandishment, cajolery, seduction, seducement, honeyed words, voice of the tempter, song of the Sirens forbidden fruit, golden apple, persuasibility, persuasibleness, attractability, impressibility, susceptibility, softness, persuasiveness, attractiveness, tantalization, influence, prompting, dictate, instance, impulse, impulsion, incitement, incitation, press, instigation, provocation, inspiration, persuasion, suasion, encouragement, advocacy, exhortation, advice, solicitation, lobbyism, pull, incentive, stimulus, spur, fillip, whip, goad, ankus, rowel, provocative, whet, dram, bribe, lure, decoy, decoy duck, bait, trail of a red herring, bribery and corruption, sop, sop for Cerberus, prompter, tempter, seducer, seductor, instigator, firebrand, incendiary, Siren, Circe, agent provocateur, lobbyist, impulsive, motive, suasive, suasory, persuasive, persuasory, hortative, hortatory, protreptical, inviting, tempting suasive, suasory, seductive, attractive, fascinating, provocative, induced, disposed, persuadable, spellbound, instinct with, smitten with, infatuated, inspired, by, because, therefore, from this motive, from that motive, for this reason, for that reason, for, by reason of, for the sake of, count of, out of, from, as, forasmuch as, for all the world, on principle, fax mentis incendium gloriae, temptation hath a music for all ears, to beguile many and be beguiled by one.

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