ravish
verb (used with object)
to fill with strong emotion, especially joy.
ravisher
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a word derived from
ravish.
Example Sentences
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"Messiah" is still a potent ravisher of the musical senses, if the number of productions this month in Seattle is anything to go by.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2010
O goddess, turn, And smiling view the error of my fear; No brutal force, no ravisher is near; A harmless roebuck gave the rustling sounds, Lo, from the thicket swift as thee he bounds!
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões
The brothers set off in pursuit of the ravisher, when Sramana, a female devotee sent by Vibhishana to Rama, calls for succour being seized by Kabandha, a headless fiend.
From Tales from the Hindu Dramatists by J. S. Zemin
Who the original lover was is doubtful; the Vita Gildae relates how she was carried off by Melwas, king of Aestiva Regis, to Glastonbury, whither Arthur, at the head of an army, pursued the ravisher.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
He that would view Nature in her undress, and partake of her internal treasures, must proceed with the resolution of a robber, if not a ravisher.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 by Various
