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Definition of Ravishment
1. Noun. A feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment.
Generic synonyms: Delectation, Delight
Derivative terms: Entrance, Entrance, Ravish
2. Noun. The crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will.
Specialized synonyms: Date Rape, Carnal Abuse, Statutory Rape
Generic synonyms: Sex Crime, Sex Offense, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault
Derivative terms: Assault, Rape, Ravish, Violate
Definition of Ravishment
1. n. 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.
Definition of Ravishment
1. Noun. ecstasy ¹
2. Noun. seizure by force ¹
3. Noun. rape ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ravishment
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Ravishment
1. 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. 2. The state of being ravished; rapture; transport of delight; ecstasy. "In whose sight all things joy, with ravishment Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze." (Milton) 3. The act of ravishing a woman; rape. Origin: F. Ravissement. See Ravish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ravishment
Literary usage of Ravishment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Law in Shakespeare: With Explanations of the Legal Terms by Edward Joseph White (1911)
"ravishment. 359. Per se. 360. Justice residing between right and wrong. ...
but the fact of the original rape or ravishment, is mentioned as the cause of ..."
2. The Works of the Rev. Joseph Bingham by Joseph Bingham (1855)
"... ravishment, robbing of graves, charms, necromancy, counterfeiting the coin,
murder, and treason. Now when the civil law excepted so many great crimes, ..."
3. Commentaries on the Roman-Dutch Law by Simon van Leeuwen (1820)
"Of ravishment. Compensation to 1-e made for defiling ... Woman-ravishment is the
ravishing and dishonouring of a woman by violence and against her will, ..."
4. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond, Thomas Day (1824)
"ravishment of ward. p. 202. 13. In actions mixed or savouring of the really—Detinue
of 14. Ejectment, p. 202. charters, p. 202. 16. ..."
5. The Huth Library: A Catalogue of the Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph by Henry Huth, Frederick Startridge Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt (1880)
"With the fall of his five and twenty Sons in the Wars of Goths, with the manner
of the ravishment of his Daughter Lavinia by the Empresses two Sons, ..."
6. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"(H 8.1 ravishment of ward. p. [394.] (H 4.) Information, p. [394.] (H 5.)
Trespass, p. [395.] (H 6.) Intrusion of ward. p. [395. ..."
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