One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil.
And Satan not only controls the world, but he continually tempts Christians; those who have just recently escaped out of his snares and are on their way to heaven.
If the devil tempts me by the thought of divine justice, I think of God's mercy; if he tries to fill me with presumption by the thought of His mercy, I think of His justice.
When the devil again tempts you to sin, telling you that God is merciful, remember that the Lord showeth mercy to them that fear Him, but not to them who despise Him.
By anger and revenge the devil tempts you, endeavoring to get you again into his toils and to embitter your heart and conscience until you shall exceed others in sin.
Instead of deterring, transportation tempts to crime; instead of reforming, it debases the bad, and confirms in villainy the already infamous.
Their absence from the plantations makes labor dear up country, and this in itself tempts the negroes who remain on land to work sturdily for wages.
Take heed, the quarrel's most ominous to us: if the son of a whore fight for a whore, hetempts judgment.
She falls easily when the cunning Jean tempts her at the psychologic moment.
More than this, she tempts her husband with the ripe beauty of Bianca.
This affords the keeper ample time to cut off a limb, which he thrusts against the cheeta's nose, and as soon as the still quivering dainty tempts him to grasp it, he is again led off to his cart.
Fatigue of carrying Hare tempts young Retriever to drop it; taught to deliver quickly by rewards of hard boiled liver.
A second course with better hap he tries, The wave intensly cold Tempts to a copious draught.
The music in the masked-ball scene is pretty, and the duet in which Flora tempts Posthumus is melodious, though the situation is rather comic.
Childkin, is it the memory of those white grapes that temptsyour appetite?
Nor care nor pleasure tempts my stay, Nor all that love himself can say, A moment shall detain.
Nancy temptsno more, Deep, unrelenting silence reigns; Of all that pleased, that charmed before, The tottering chimney scarce remains!
Sidenote: Of drinks] Drinking tempts some men not only by taste, but by the appeal to sociability; to other coarser natures the joys of Bacchus offer the one hope of exhilaration.
To some, indeed, an exquisite gentleness and forbearance almost tempts their harshness.
Existence should be met on its own terms; we may dance a round with it, and perhaps steal a kiss; but it tempts only to flout us, not being dedicated to any constant love.
That is why snobbery is really a vice: it tempts us to neglect and despise our proper virtues in aping those of other people.
If we resist the evil one, who tempts us through our ferocious lusts, he will flee from us.
The desire which tempts proceeds from his own evil nature, and the will which consents to the temptress is his own.
In short, how can we found justice and goodness on attributes that are unjust and evil; yet attributes of a Being who tempts man, whom he created, for the purpose of punishing him when tempted?
In a God who tempts us, or who permits us to be tempted, do you behold a being of beneficence and sincerity?
He tempts by means; he appeareth not in his own shape and hue, but assumeth the body of one of the creatures, the body of the serpent, and so begins the combat.
He that tempts thee doth not at all consider thy strength, so as to stop when he sees thou art weak; he would have thee overthrown, for therefore it is that he tempteth thee.
Saladin tempts him to deny God and devote himself to the Devil, who, in return, will give him back all his old prosperity and more.
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