What's the difference between tempter and temptress?

Tempter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ali, who has been keeping his powder bone dry, has a huge wild waft at a tempter outside off.
  • (2) According to this method, the patient's problem is given a linguistic designation, for example "the tyrant of anguish", "the tempter of drugs", "the black voice", and is kept outside the dominant identity of the patient.
  • (3) 5.16pm BST O'Sullivan hits it this time, but leaves a tempter to the green pocket - which Selby eschews.
  • (4) O'Sullivan breaks, and takes the cue ball to behind the green - leaving a tempter just below the blue, to the bottom left pocket.
  • (5) 8.17pm BST A Selby safety shot flicks the green, the cue ball now close to its spot, and leaving Ronnie a long tempter to the bottom right.

Temptress


Definition:

  • (n.) A woman who entices.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gerwig played the vacillating temptress in Hannah Takes the Stairs , the long-distance lover in Nights and Weekends , a jittery scream queen in the Duplass brothers’ Baghead .
  • (2) But out in The Real World, leopard print still has ridiculous connotations, such as the ones I mentioned above: Bet Lynch, untrustworthy temptresses, blah blah blah.
  • (3) "It's a term which harks back to a biblical interpretation of Eve as a seductive temptress who is responsible for the behaviour of the men around her," explains 23-year-old Aisha Zakira, a columnist and the founder of Hollaback!
  • (4) He persuaded a pretty policewoman to pose as a sadistic temptress.
  • (5) Enter Parsifal, a "pure fool" and Christ-like redeemer figure, who alone can resist the lure of Klingsor's harpies, restore the spear to the knights, cure Amfortas and give Klingsor's arch-temptress Kundry the release from earthly life she so ardently desires.
  • (6) So it moved to programmes – including one in which alleged Beckham temptress Rebecca Loos hand-pleasured a pig – that surrendered what critical reputation it had.
  • (7) Cleopatra She was the 1st century BC pharaoh of Egypt and Rome's favourite exotic temptress.
  • (8) A lot of times they are a siren temptress beckoning me with the promise of a much shorter, simpler, more slender novel over the horizon, but of course that's very dangerous.

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