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Definition of Ravishers
1. ravisher [n] - See also: ravisher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ravishers
Literary usage of Ravishers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Eclectic Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art by John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell (1843)
"Hercules killed robbers and ravishers with his knotted club: he cleansed also
royal stables by turning whole rivers into them. ..."
2. Origines Ecclesiasticæ: Or, The Antiquities of the Christian Church, and by Joseph Bingham, Richard Bingham (1840)
"... adulterers, ravishers of virgins, or any the like, but rather to the innocent
and injured parties, who were exposed to their violence and abuses. ..."
3. A Digest of the Criminal Statute Law of England: Alphabetically and by Harold Nuttall Tomlins (1819)
"Item, against the Offenders and Ravishers of Ladies, and the $ 4. Daughters of
Noblemen, and other Women in every part of the j^01^"^'"* said Realm, ..."
4. The Ecclesiastical Law by Richard Burn, Robert Philip Tyrwhitt (1824)
"Against the offenders and ravishers of ladies, ... Saving to the king and other
lords the escheats of such ravishers, if they be thereof convict. ..."
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