seductress
Noun
Meaning
A woman who seduces.
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Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.
Entzminger, B., The Belle Gone Bad: white Southern women writers and the dark seductress, p. 109. Mitchell's romantic hero is colored —portrayed in blacks and browns.
Dean 1965, p. 117 There was consternation that the heroine was an amoral seductress rather than a woman of virtue; Steen, pp. 604–05 Galli-Marié's interpretation of the role was described by one critic as "the very incarnation of vice".
In modern representations, a succubus may or may not appear in dreams and is often depicted as a highly attractive seductress or enchantress ; whereas, in the past, succubi were generally depicted as frightening and demonic.
The material world, and all of its pleasures, is the ultimate seductress, and can lead to materialism unbalanced by the spirituality of the higher spheres.