Word Finder - inviting

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To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.

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We invited our friends round for dinner.

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To request formally.

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I invite you all to be seated.

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To encourage.

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I always invite criticism of my definitions.

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To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.

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Invitation

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Alluring; tempting; attractive.

Thank you for inviting us.

Thank you for inviting me to your home.

When Ethel did the inviting, the function was nearly always out of town.

Even inviting Tessa was disrespectful.

Walid sent a messenger inviting them to a conference, thus giving them time to assemble their followers and to escape to Mecca, where the prefect Omar b.

The shed at Hugson's Siding was bare save for an old wooden bench, and did not look very inviting.

Anna Pavlovna arranged a group round him, inviting everyone to listen to his tale.

The portions are generous, the food is tasty and the atmosphere is warm and inviting.

This had been followed by an intimation from the governor of the Cape (MajorGeneral Sir George Napier) inviting the emigrants to return to the colony, and stating that whenever he thought it desirable he should take military possession of the port.

The English parliament in their desire to encourage the linen industry at the expense of the woollen, followed Ormonde's lead by passing an act inviting foreign workmen to settle in Ireland, and admitting all articles made of flax or hemp into England free of duty.

Hardly had he resigned when he received a telegram from Sir Robert Hart, inspector-general of customs in China, inviting him to go to Peking.

Inviting potential reruns into the house left him irked.

They were forestalled by the popes, who each summoned a council, the former to Cividale (in Friuli), the latter to Perpignan, so the dissident cardinals sent out antedated letters inviting Christendom to assemble at Pisa on the 25th of March 1409.

Thc Magyars were as usual stimulated to action by the disunion of their enemies; and Conrad and Ludolf made the blunder of inviting their help, a proceeding which disgusted the Germans, many of whom fell away from their side and rallied to thi head and protector of the nation.

In fact, there are thousands of inviting opportunities for newts to leave the lake if they wanted to do so.

It was very inviting."

The more inviting portion of the modern city lies on the western side of Jones's Falls, and the principal residential districts are in the northern half of the city.

His words made too much sense - his body so close to hers was warm and inviting.

His lips were warm and soft – questioning and inviting.

Enjoy a refreshing dip in the inviting swimming pool or simply relax with a cool drink at the poolside bar.

Her restored Edwardian grandeur is both welcoming and inviting.

The sensory garden will be wonderfully inviting and a fairly intimate area for everybody who visits the park.

The massive granite peaks that greet you are mysterious and inviting at the same time.

The ginging sized boulders wedged in a small window at roof level were far to inviting to leave alone.

His attitude towards Cesare Borgia was exceedingly astute; at first he assisted him, and obtained from him with the favour of the French king the cession of Piombino; but having subsequently aroused the suspicions of Borgia, the latter attempted to suppress Petrucci by inviting him to the fatal meeting of Senigallia.

On the 7th of October the emperor Ferdinand had fled from Schonbrunn to Olmiitz, a Slav district, whence he issued a proclamation inviting whoever loved "Austria and freedom" to rally round the throne.

On the 17th of August 1805 the dam of the canal of Cairo was to be cut, and some chiefs of Mehemet Alis party wrote, informing them that he would go forth early on that morning with most of his troops to witness the ceremony, inviting them to enter and seize the city, and, to deceive them, stipulating for a certain sum of money as a reward.

He was a constant preacher, and gave a great impulse to Trench's practice of inviting distinguished preachers to the abbey pulpit, especially to the evening services in the nave.

He posted up a notice inviting the Wittenberg students to witness the burning of the bull (loth of December 1520).

In 1908 an international commission that met at Shanghai passed resolutions inviting all the states there represented to take measures for the gradual suppression of the manufacture, sale and distribution of opium, except for medicinal purposes.

After inviting Henry to a disputation, which he refused to attend, St Bernard returned to Clairvaux.

Her letter crossed with one from him inviting her to proceed to the Crimea.

In a war with the neighbouring state of Phocis (356-346) it could not even maintain its predominance in central Greece, and by inviting Philip II.

The defenders took immediate action, by inviting all Protestant members of the diet to meet at Prague.

The people of the more rugged and remoter groups of this division are by race survivors of the early Celtic stock, which, being driven by successive invaders from the open and fertile country of the Eastern Division, found refuges in the less inviting but more easily defended lands of the west.

The French governor, Boufflers, made a glorious defence, and Eugene paid a flattering tribute to his valour in inviting him to prepare the articles of capitulation himself, with the words "I subscribe to everything beforehand, well persuaded that you will not insert anything unworthy of yourself or of me."

Henry won much applause at the same time by filling up all the bishoprics and abbacies which his brother had kept so long vacant, by inviting the exiled Anselm to return to England, and by imprisoning Williams odious minister Ranulf Flambard.

The advocates of popular government, they were inviting parliament, for a second time, to suspend representative institutions in an important colony.

They rival if they do not exceed in fertility the valley of the Nile, and are the healthiest and most inviting agricultural and grazing region of the basin of the Amazon.

When he was but nineteen he accepted a challenge put forth by Henry Fitzsimons, a learned Jesuit, then a prisoner in Dublin, inviting discussion of Bellarmine's arguments in defence of Roman Catholicism, and acquitted himself with much distinction.

Among the letters of Julian are two (29 and 30) addressed to Alypius; one inviting him to Rome, the other thanking him for a geographical treatise, which no longer exists.

That's just inviting problems – stirring up conflict where it doesn't exist.

Such a law is anathema to Arnold's neo-liberal big business backers, the very ones that Blair is inviting into the British NHS.

You may think you can outsmart the management team by inviting competitive bids from trade buyers.

All the while Abel could hear the voice calling, demanding, inviting, its cries ringing out across the valley bottom.

Early flowering camellias and hellebores, coupled with the occasional snowdrop, make the new year seem more inviting.

The Secretary of State for Education and Skills was at that time inviting clergy, in particular, to sponsor new City Academies.

Each prize draw includes an opt in box inviting you to say yes to the draw sponsor sending you further offers.

Inviting people to rifle through her underwear drawer was pretty gross.

But if erasing your valued collection of adult erotica is not for you, how about inviting your paramour into your perverted world?