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/ɹˈævɪʃmənt/
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NOUN
- a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment
- the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will
How To Use ravishment In A Sentence
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- The urn as unravished bride proleptically contains its ravishment as a natural outcome in the ritual of weddings that parallels the consummation of questions asked. Deforming Keat's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
- If there's haste, it's a ravishment borne by yourself, not imposed by the medium's structure itself.
- They fill him with an attentive ravishment, a marveling, it's pleasing and rejuvenating, a steady, pure current that he has never experienced until now with anyone. . . A Window Onto Comic Tedium
- In the hungry light of the houseboat he could see the fiery ravishment of her legs and belly; he could smell the other man, and her devourment of him. Tours of the Black Clock
- What little bit survives a couple of hundred years of human ravishment, that is! Newmatilda.com - Comments
- This song they carolled on such dulcet wise and so delightsomely that to the king, who beheld and hearkened to them with ravishment, it seemed as if all the hierarchies of the angels were lighted there to sing. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
- It's not surprising that they would exhume him now to serve his usual role as facilitator of GOP criminal ravishment.
- The Lexicon Of Love, was a sensational debut, with its brass constructions and guitar ravishments.
- I behold the light with a kind of ravishment, and all the rest of the day I am happy. Classic French Course in English