ravishment
AmericanEtymology
Origin of ravishment
1470–80; < Middle French ravissement, equivalent to raviss- ( ravish ) + -ment -ment
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
There are moments when these ravishments come close to the touristic, though this is attenuated by the filmmakers’ unexpected use of the boxy Academy ratio.
From New York Times
There is a white image magic that feeds humanism and infuses art with healthy Dionysian passion, and there is a black image magic that causes us to surrender reason to ravishments of our own fixations.
From The New Yorker
Close to my heart I felt the presence of the long-sought, now-discovered glory; and its ravishments thrilled into me with all their power.
From Project Gutenberg
What though our friend Dana shall twang a guitar And murmur a passionate strain— Oh, fairer by far Than these ravishments are The castles abounding in Spain!
From Project Gutenberg
On the sensuous beauty of the world she spent the chaste ravishments of her virginal heart.
From Project Gutenberg
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
