alluring

Etymology

verb

1. present participle and gerund of allure

noun

1. The action of the verb allure.
   Was this poor breast, from Love's allurings free, / Cruel to all, and gentle unto thee ? 1615, George Wither, Fidelia
   For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants; so Ahab did, in the end, a little respond to the playful allurings of that girlish air. 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
   Lookout heights and Smoky Mountains have allurings all their own. 1952, Daughters of the American Revolution, volume 86, page 250

adj

1. Having the power to allure.