'Ravishment' definitions:
Definition of 'ravishment'
(from WordNet)
noun
A feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment [syn: entrancement, ravishment]
noun
Definition of 'Ravishment'
From: GCIDE
- Ravishment \Rav"ish*ment\ (-ment), n. [F. ravissement. See Ravish.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The state of being ravished; rapture; transport of delight; ecstasy. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- In whose sight all things joy, with ravishment Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The act of ravishing a woman; rape. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'ravishment'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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