ravishment
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ravishment \Rav"ish*ment\ (-ment), n. [F. ravissement. See
{Ravish}.]
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1. The act of carrying away by force or against consent;
abduction; as, the ravishment of children from their
parents, of a ward from his guardian, or of a wife from
her husband. --Blackstone.
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2. The state of being ravished; rapture; transport of
delight; ecstasy. --Spenser.
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In whose sight all things joy, with ravishment
Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze. --Milton.
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3. The act of ravishing a woman; rape.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
101 Moby Thesaurus words for "ravishment":
abandon, abuse, banditry, beatification, beatitude, betrayal,
bewitchment, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, brigandage,
brigandism, cheer, cheerfulness, cloud nine, craze,
criminal assault, debauchment, defilement, defloration,
deflowering, deflowerment, delectation, delight, delirium,
depredation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, devirgination,
direption, ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, enchantment, exaltation,
exhilaration, exuberance, felicity, fire and fury, foraging, foray,
freebooting, frenzy, furor, furore, fury, gaiety, gladness, glee,
happiness, heaven, high spirits, hysteria, intoxication, joy,
joyance, joyfulness, looting, madness, marauding, orgasm, orgy,
overhappiness, overjoyfulness, paradise, passion, pillage,
pillaging, plunder, plundering, priapism, rage, raid, raiding,
ransacking, rape, rapine, rapture, ravage, ravagement, ravaging,
razzia, reiving, rifling, sack, sacking, seducement, seduction,
seventh heaven, sexual assault, sexual possession, spoiling,
spoliation, sunshine, taking, tearing passion, towering rage,
transport, unalloyed happiness, violation
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