different between wheedling vs enticement

English

Etymology

From wheedle +? -ing

Verb

wheedling

1. present participle of wheedle

Adjective

wheedling (comparative more wheedling, superlative most wheedling)

1. Coaxing, aiming to persuade.
   • 1888, Howard Pyle, Otto of the Silver Hand, ch. 9

     Then, in a soft, wheedling voice, "Canst thou not let me in, my little bird? Sure there are other lasses besides thyself who would like to trade with a poor peddler who has travelled all the way from Gruenstadt just to please the pretty ones of Trutz-Drachen."

Derived terms

• wheedlingly

Noun

wheedling (plural wheedlings)

1. The act of one who wheedles.

English

Etymology

From Old French enticement.

Noun

enticement (countable and uncountable, plural enticements)

1. The act or practice of enticing, of alluring or tempting
2. That which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; an alluring object

Translations

References

• enticement in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• enticement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• encitement

Old French

Etymology

enticier +? -ment.

Noun

enticement m (oblique plural enticemenz or enticementz, nominative singular enticemenz or enticementz, nominative plural enticement)

1. incitement (act, instance of inciting)

Descendants

• ? English: enticement

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (enticement)
• enticement on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub