Crossword clues for ravishment
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ravishment \Rav"ish*ment\ (-ment), n. [F. ravissement. See Ravish.]
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.-
The state of being ravished; rapture; transport of delight; ecstasy.
--Spenser.In whose sight all things joy, with ravishment Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze.
--Milton. The act of ravishing a woman; rape.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, from Middle French ravissement (14c.), from ravir (see ravish).
Wiktionary
n. 1 ecstasy 2 seizure by force 3 rape
WordNet
n. a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment [syn: entrancement]
the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will [syn: rape, violation, assault]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "ravishment".
Look how the liberal and transfiguring air Washes this inn of memorable meetings, This centre of ravishments and gracious greetings, Till, through its jocund loveliness of length A tidal-race of lust from shore to shore, A brimming reach of beauty met with strength, It shines and sounds like some miraculous dream, Some vision multitudinous and agleam, Of happiness as it shall be evermore!
Ravishments of design and taste were on every side, and he was in the lap of abundance, beguiled by magic, caressed by beauty and a Queen.
A cunning sound In that wing-music held me: down I lay In amber shades of many a golden spray, Where looping low with languid arms the Vine In wreaths of ravishment did overtwine Her kneeling Live-Oak, thousand-fold to plight Herself unto her own true stalwart knight.
Look how the liberal and transfiguring air Washes this inn of memorable meetings, This centre of ravishments and gracious greetings, Till, through its jocund loveliness of length A tidal-race of lust from shore to shore, A brimming reach of beauty met with strength, It shines and sounds like some miraculous dream, Some vision multitudinous and agleam, Of happiness as it shall be evermore!
I had noted, with interest, that although they were from different worlds, they, in the throes of their instimate employments, at first submitting to and enduring, then accepting, then reveling in, and, at last, kneeling and licking, mutely begging and pleading for their ravishments, in their whimpers and moans, and clutchings, denied speech, obedient under “gag law,” had sounded the same.
I had noted, with interest, that although they were from different worlds, they, in the throes of their instimate employments, at first submitting to and enduring, then accepting, then reveling in, and, at last, kneeling and licking, mutely begging and pleading for their ravishments, in their whimpers and moans, and clutchings, denied speech, obedient under "gag law," had sounded the same.
He exaggerated everything - his almost balletically choreographed ravishment of the anonymous female and the pleasure he apparently derived from it, all for his love's benefit.
If such a woman should be enslaved, however, she must learn to perform in full illumination, whether it be in the soft light of a common ravishment lamp or on a dock at midday.
What man, I wondered, would not wish to unlace or tear away that bodice, to subject its treasures, like the woman herself, to the ravishments of his mouth and hands.
Among such stories, of course, is that of the sexual conquest of Dira by Orak, in which she learns her slavery, and rejoices in it, and thrives in it, living to love and serve selflessly, finding her meaning and ecstasy in her own subordination, her own ravishment and conquest.