ravishment
AmericanEtymology
Origin of ravishment
1470–80; < Middle French ravissement, equivalent to raviss- ( see ravish) + -ment -ment
Example Sentences
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Kam, tell me not about your surprise disappointments of 2018 but about your moments of unexpected ravishment.
From Slate • Jan. 4, 2019
Or rather, you set yourself the challenge of making ugliness beautiful, of finding ravishment in a bleak dystopian panorama strewn with toxic waste sites, abandoned factories and towering heaps of rubbish.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2018
Mr. Gray is “a sensualist,” Manohla Dargis wrote in her review in April, “and in ‘The Lost City of Z’ he turns the Amazon into a ravishment for the senses.”
From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2017
The room is a ravishment of red brocade, its gleaming surfaces bathed in dim candlelight and slowly lengthening shadows that the cinematographer Jonathan Ricquebourg captures in exquisitely shot digital images.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2017
I didn’t grow up looking for ravishment or rescue, either one.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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