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Webster 1828 Edition


Ravished

RAV'ISHED

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Snatched away by violence; forced to submit to carnal embrace; delighted to ecstasy.

Definition 2024


ravished

ravished

English

Verb

ravished

  1. simple past tense and past participle of ravish

Adjective

ravished

  1. delighted; ecstatic
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
      [W]henever the person who is possessed of [natural goodness] doth what is right, no ravished or friendly spectator is so eager or so loud in his applause: on the contrary, when he doth wrong, no critic is so apt to hiss and explode him.
  2. Having the appearance of having been ravished. (Can we add an example for this sense?)