ravishment

[ UK /ɹˈævɪʃmənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment
  2. the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will
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  • Having begun its corrupt debauchment of conurbations worldwide by sleazing up New York (kind of a gimme), this rampant rendezvous of ravishment has moved on to purvey its own sordid brand of pastel-smudged skullduggery in the artistic communities of more than two dozen cities. Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art Show, NYC « Skid Roche
  • Through the heads about him, he could see her standing a little in advance of the others, her head turned to one side, really in the natural attitude of violin-playing, but, as it seemed to him, in a kind of ravishment of listening -- cheeks flushed, eyes shining, and the right arm and high-curved wrist managing the bow with a grace born of knowledge and fine training. Robert Elsmere
  • Characteristically, he depicts the mythic heroine at the very moment of her ravishment, when she is taken by Zeus, transformed into a shower of gold coins.
  • Mack Mitchell's "ravishment" of teenage Tibetan refugees eh Desmond? Ministers and Professional Ethics
  • Theirs is a "small" life, but one that expands the intimacy of this real and world-wide ravishment. Lauren Gunderson: Theater of the Every Day Epic
  • What is it about Chris Matthews’ show that evokes images of bodice-ripping, drooling ravishment?
  • What is it about Chris Matthews’ show that evokes images of bodice-ripping, drooling ravishment?
  • The speaker worked his way through plunder, ravishment and seditious behavior.
  • He mistrusted ravishment by charm, spiritual appeal, force, wit or other blandishments.
  • (suspectable), occasionally and alternatively used by husband when having writing to do in connection with equitable druids and friendly or other societies through periods of dire want with comparative plenty (thunderburst, ravishment, dissolution and providentiality) to a sofa allbeit of hoarsehaar with Amodicum cloth, hired payono, still playing off, used by the youngsters for czurnying out oldstrums, three bedrooms upastairs, of which one with fireplace (aspectable), with greenhouse in prospect (par-ticularly perspectable). Finnegans Wake
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