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Definition of Ravishing
1. Adjective. Stunningly beautiful. "A ravishing blonde"
Definition of Ravishing
1. a. Rapturous; transporting.
Definition of Ravishing
1. Adjective. Extremely beautiful ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of ravish) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ravishing
1. ravish [v] - See also: ravish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ravishing
Literary usage of Ravishing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1908)
"One of the quaintest and most alluring romances that ever graced a season's fiction.
More ravishing and a thousand limes more thrilling than 'Susan. ..."
2. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"age of 14 years, or by forcibly ravishing any woman of the age of 14 years or
upwards, shall suffer death," etc. State v. Wray, 109 Mo. 594, 590, 19 SW 86, ..."
3. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by John Gibson Lockhart (1837)
""November I. — I suppose the ravishing is going to begin, for we have had the
Dames des Halles, with a bouquet like a maypole, and a speech full of honey ..."
4. The Grecian History from the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great by Oliver Goldsmith (1824)
"... so long shall they pursue them, for ravishing their lands, for burning their
houses, and polluting their temples: such is the answer \ve return t. ..."
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