temptation

CEFRB2

/ˌtɛmpˈteɪʃən/

noun

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noun
A strong desire to do or have something.
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noun
Extra detail
Something attractive, tempting or seductive; an inducement, seducement, or enticement.

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Extra meanings

The condition of being tempted.
The act of tempting.
Pressure applied to one's thinking designed to create wrong emotions which will eventually lead to wrong actions.

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At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […]
1762, Charles Johnstone, The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools, volume 2, Dublin: Printed by Dillon Chamberlaine, →OCLC, page 202

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From Old French temptacion, from Latin temptatio. Morphologically tempt + -ation.