ravishment : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: ravishment	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for ravishment
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ravishment n a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment Synonym(s): entrancement, ravishment the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will Synonym(s): rape, violation, assault, ravishment
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ravishment \Rav"ishment\, n. [F. ravissement. See {Ravish}.] 1. The act of carrying away by force or against consent; abduction; as, the ravishment* of children from their parents, or a ward from his guardian, or of a wife from her husband. --Blackstone. 2. The state of being ravished; rapture; transport of delight; ecstasy. --Spencer. In whose sight all things joy, with ravishment Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze. --Milton. 3. The act of ravishing a woman; rape.