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INDUCEMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Act of bringing about a desired result
Example:
inducement of sleep
Synonyms:
inducement; inducing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("inducement" is a kind of...):
causation; causing (the act of causing something to happen)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inducement"):
corruption (inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony))
Derivation:
induce (cause to arise)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A positive motivational influence
Synonyms:
incentive; inducement; motivator
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("inducement" is a kind of...):
rational motive (a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inducement"):
dynamic; moral force (an efficient incentive)
Derivation:
induce (cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner)
Context examples:
I have none of the usual inducements of women to marry.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
It was the prospect of constant society, and good society, he added, which was my chief inducement to enter the —shire.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
This was usually said in the Doctor's presence, and appeared to me to constitute Annie's principal inducement for withdrawing her objections when she made any.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I passed up the street, looking as I went at all the houses to the right hand and to the left; but I could discover no pretext, nor see an inducement to enter any.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
In such a situation as that, where there seemed nothing to tempt the avarice or the vanity of any living creature, how could I suppose, when she so earnestly, so warmly insisted on sharing my fate, whatever it might be, that any thing but the most disinterested affection was her inducement?
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
But on the other hand, as Emma wants to see her better informed, it will be an inducement to her to read more herself.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on, I shall not attempt to deny.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I do not often walk this way now, said Emma, as they proceeded, but then there will be an inducement, and I shall gradually get intimately acquainted with all the hedges, gates, pools and pollards of this part of Highbury.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
He is, indeed; but, considering the inducement, my dear Miss Eliza, we cannot wonder at his complaisance—for who would object to such a partner?
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Mr. Perry had been to Mrs. Goddard's to attend a sick child, and Miss Nash had seen him, and he had told Miss Nash, that as he was coming back yesterday from Clayton Park, he had met Mr. Elton, and found to his great surprize, that Mr. Elton was actually on his road to London, and not meaning to return till the morrow, though it was the whist-club night, which he had been never known to miss before; and Mr. Perry had remonstrated with him about it, and told him how shabby it was in him, their best player, to absent himself, and tried very much to persuade him to put off his journey only one day; but it would not do; Mr. Elton had been determined to go on, and had said in a very particular way indeed, that he was going on business which he would not put off for any inducement in the world; and something about a very enviable commission, and being the bearer of something exceedingly precious.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
