Temptation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TEMPTATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of tempting or the state of being tempted esp. to evil
• the desire to do something, especially something wrong or unwise
• a thing that attracts or tempts someone
• the tempting of Jesus by the Devil (see Matt. 4).
• The act of tempting, or enticing to evil; seduction.
• The state of being tempted, or enticed to evil.
• That which tempts; an inducement; an allurement, especially to something evil.
• something that seduces or has the quality to seduce
• the desire to have or do something that you know you should avoid
• the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire
• the act of tempting or the state of being tempted especially to evil
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act of tempting or the state of being tempted especially to evil; enticement

Words related to TEMPTATION

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Words that contain TEMPTATION

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How to use TEMPTATION in a sentence

• No doubt he fought, for the split part of a second, with a wild temptation to jerk that door open and leap into the safety of the hall.
• But the temptation was very great, and I wanted to know so badly.
• He had intended to leave his place, and fly from the mysterious temptation which he felt he wanted power to combat, but accident or fate prevented him.
• He washed the dishes and turned on the TV, mostly to avoid the temptation to go to Deweys.
• Private prayer has been profitable, but do not know that I was ever so much beset with peculiar temptation.
• The tramp prays to be led not into such temptation.
• I had not seen Miss Hamilton since the evening Uncle Max discovered us together, and I could not resist the temptation of finding her alone.
• She had had a chance to improve it and had resisted the temptation.
• No doubt he sometimes felt and confessed that his love of fun and frolic was a temptation that he had to watch well against.
• There is always a temptation to feed chicks too soon after they are hatched.
• Lead us not into the temptation of letting our wrath be too tame in carrying out Thy divine judgment.
• With a love which cannot be satisfied comes the mighty temptation to sin and disgrace.
• We would afford them a homely sitting-room, with no temptation to keep them within doors for a single moment, except during their brief and humble meals.
• Therefore the temptation seems to have been incomplete.
• Later in the book we shall see how his profound compassion leads him into temptation, and how frantically he struggles against it.
• We may take the temptation in the wilderness as an example.
• For with temptation came his blindness, and he no longer saw the thing that tempted him for what it was.
• It seemed as if I had been placed between honor and temptation, and was about to fall into the arms of the latter.
• Temptation, evils of yielding, even in slight matters, to, 217.
• When you talk to a young mind in a whisper and behind locked doors about a temptation to be avoided, you but give edge to appetite and curiosity.
• When you bring the temptation out into the glare of sunlight, and speak of it in presence of the whole world, you dispel the illusion.
• Tell the child that the only chance to overcome this inherited tendency will be by constantly avoiding those things that will lead to temptation.
• Few of us had had the temptation to endure which overcame Peter when he denied his Lord and Master.
• His compassion for her at such times involved a temptation, or rather a question, which he had to silence by a direct effort of his will.
• Thus it is that temptation, hard conflict, and bewildering perplexities usher in the life of the Spirit.
• This took away the ground of temptation longer to hide his fins, and cleared the way to a public renunciation, and return to duty.
• But I had never been to a theater, and it was such a tremendous temptation.
• But, the offer of a present good is a strong temptation.
• He wanted his mind to stay cold and taut, and he was afraid to face the temptation of her eyes and her soft white arms.

Similar words containing TEMPTA without suffix tion

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