Definition of "ravishment" [rav•ish•ment]

• The act of seizing by force. (noun)
• Sexual rape. (noun)
• Rapture; entrancement. (noun)

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• "What little bit survives a couple of hundred years of human ravishment, that is!"
• "Mack Mitchell's "ravishment" of teenage Tibetan refugees eh Desmond?"
• "I behold the light with a kind of ravishment, and all the rest of the day I am happy."