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Ravish v. t. (past & past part. ravished; pres. part. ravishing)

To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force. "These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin Will quicken, and accuse thee." "This hand shall ravish thy pretended right."

To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy. "Ravished... for the joy." "Thou hast ravished my heart."

To have carnal knowledge of (a woman) by force, and against her consent; to rape.

Synonyms: To transport; entrance; enrapture; delight; violate; deflower; force.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ravish" Quotes from Famous Books

... he lieth waiting secretly, even as a lion lurketh he in his den: that he may ravish ...

— The Book of Common Prayer - and The Scottish Liturgy • Church of England

... for not only did it feel tighter in it, but transferring his fingers from guiding his prick, he touched and played with my clitoris, and produced such excessive lubricity that I went off and spent with a scream of delight before he was ready; but continuing with finger and cock to ravish me inside and out, he soon brought me again to such a pitch of lewdness that I was quite ready to spend with him when the grand crisis arrived. Nothing could exceed the pleasure; my internal pressures, he declared, were the most exquisite he had ever experienced. My clitoris, too, he declared ...

— The Romance of Lust - A classic Victorian erotic novel • Anonymous

... have I seen when Caesar would appear, And on the stage at half-sword parley were Brutus and Cassius—oh, how the audience Were ravish'd, with what wonder they went thence When some new day they would not brook a line Of ...

— A Life of William Shakespeare - with portraits and facsimiles • Sidney Lee

... heart that nestled fond in thee, That heart how sunk, a prey to grief and care; So deckt the woodbine sweet yon aged tree; So, from it ravish'd, leaves ...

— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns

... Baron the bright locks admired; He saw, he wished, and to the prize aspired. Resolved to win, he meditates the way, By force to ravish, or by fraud betray; For when success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud ...

— Playful Poems • Henry Morley

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