ravishment
AmericanEtymology
Origin of ravishment
1470–80; < Middle French ravissement, equivalent to raviss- ( see ravish) + -ment -ment
Example Sentences
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His life and his legacy was and remains to this day a continuum in which enchantment, even ravishment, comes hand in hand with provocation and controversy, adoration and loathing.
From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2020
Kam, tell me not about your surprise disappointments of 2018 but about your moments of unexpected ravishment.
From Slate • Jan. 4, 2019
Heard against this background, “Bolero,” written nine years later, seems to indicate that what is left from the 19th-century waltz is ravishment.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2018
Some of that ravishment arrives courtesy of the movie’s setting, a stunning pan-Asian metropolis that makes boldly inventive use of the Hong Kong skyline, its tightly stacked buildings tricked out with enormous holographic billboards.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2017
I didn’t grow up looking for ravishment or rescue, either one.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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