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ravishment|ˈrævɪʃmənt|
Also 5–6 rauisshe-, 6 rauysshe-, rauishe-, etc.
[ad. OF. ravissement (14th c.): see ravish v. and -ment.]
†1. The act of carrying off a person; in ravishment of ward or ravishment de gard, the taking away of a ward; also, the writ issued in consequence of this. Obs.
1530–1Act 22 Hen. VIII, c. 15 And also excepted and for⁓prised out of this pardon all rauysshementes of the Kynges wardes. c1640J. Smyth Lives Berkeleys (1883) II. 351 This lord Henry brought his Writ of ravishment de gard against Robert Hill. 1642tr. Perkins' Prof. Bk. i. §30. 13 If Lord and Tenant be by Knights service and the Tenant die, his heire within age, and a stranger take him away, the Lord shall have a ravishment of ward. 1700Tyrrell Hist. Eng. II. 1107 Penalties for Ravishment of a Ward from his Lord's Custody.
2. Forcible abduction or violation of a woman.
1529S. Fish Supplic. Beggers (1871) 8 For the murdre of his auncestre, rauisshement of his wyfe, of his doughter. 1661Morgan Sph. Gentry iii. ix. 101 Tatius King of the Sabines coming against him to revenge the ravishment of their women. 1712Steele Spect. No. 533 ⁋2 Why should there be Accessaries in Ravishment any more than Murther? 1794T. Taylor Pausanias I. 39 She was there informed, by Chrysanthis, of the ravishment of her daughter. c1850Arab. Nts. (Rtldg.) 679 He begged the princess to acquaint him of what had passed from the time of her ravishment.
transf.1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. xliv. (1739) 72 For though he might have taken it by ravishment, yet he chose the way of wooing it by a kind of mutual agreement. a1671Ld. Fairfax Mem. (1699) 125 Even this I hope all impartial judges will interpret as force and ravishment of a good name, rather than a voluntary consent.
b. With a and pl.: = rape n.2 3 b.
1576Act 18 Eliz. c. 7 §1 Felonious Rapes or Ravishements of Women Maydes Wieves and Damsells. 1686Lond. Gaz. No. 2120/2 All Ravishments and wilful taking away or Marrying of any Maid. 1724De Foe Mem. Cavalier (1840) 188 Murders, ravishments, and barbarities. 1890W. Booth In Darkest Eng. i. i. 13 Ravishments as horrible, as if we were in Central Africa.
fig.1693G. Firmin Rev. Mr. Davis's Vind. i. 9 Our coming to Christ, and union with him, is compared to Marriage,..but Dr. Crisp makes it a Ravishment.
3. Transport, rapture, ecstasy.
c1477Caxton Jason 67 b, In this rauisshement, him thought that the God mars saide to him, Appollo, Appollo. 1546Primer Hen. VIII 146 In the mouth honie so mellifluous, In the heart ravishment celestious. 1627W. Sclater Exp. 2 Thess. (1629) 89 Cursed Moamed calls the dead fits of his falling Sicknesse, his Exstasie and rauishment at the appearance of the Angell Gabriel. 1718Entertainer No. 21. 144 That Heavenly Bliss, which has absorb'd their Souls in Ravishment and Rapture. 1814Cary Dante, Par. xiv. 115 A melody That, indistinctly heard, with ravishment Possess'd me. 1873Browning Red Cotton Night-Cap Country iv. 270 What folks nickname A lyre, those ancients played to ravishment.
b. With a and pl.
1581Marbeck Bk. of Notes 655 Some of them haue visions, rauishments, & traunces. 1663Bp. Patrick Parab. Pilgr. xvi, To make joy in heaven,..oh what a ravishment is it! 1744J. Paterson Comm. Milton's P.L. 266 Ravishments, exstacies, or transports of the mind for joy. 1841–4Emerson Ess. Ser. i. ix. (1876) 227 What was in the case of these remarkable persons [Fox, Swedenborg, etc.] a ravishment.
†4. An act of plundering or ravaging. Obs.
1570Levins Manip. 68/6 A rauishmente, rapina. 1606G. W[oodcocke] Hist. Ivstine ii. 9 The foule rauishments they had offered them by the Athenians. 1650B. Discolliminium 24 That Scotish Invasion and our English Defeat..was a very Ravishment. |