society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > [noun] > defilement of chastity or woman > forcible > one who rapes
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > [noun] > transporting with ecstasy > one who or that which
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > spoiler or plunderer > [noun]
a1325 (2011) xxxiii. 84 Þeftes, mansleȝttes, roberies, rauines, falsares þe kinges moneie, clippares, false chaungeres, rauissurs of wemmen.
c1350 (Harl. 874) (1961) 100 (MED) By þe feet as a bere bitokneþ his rauisshshoures.
c1390 Vision St. Paul (Vernon) in C. Horstmann (1892) i. 253 (MED) Byndeþ hem in knucchenus forþi, To brenne, lyk to licchi..Rauisschers wiþ rauisschours, Wikked wiþ wikked also.
1429 IV. 344/1 Ravyshours of Wymen ayens the lawe.
a1500 (Gloucester) (1971) 751 (MED) The Rauyscher & sche þat was raueschede, bothe þei were dampned with fowle dethe.
1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Tabil sig. *.iiv All adulteraris, deflouraris of virginis, rauissaris of wemen.
1594 W. Shakespeare v. ii. 103 Good Rapine stab him, he is a rauisher . View more context for this quotation
1632 W. Lithgow ii. 74 Her matrones became a prey and prise to euery Rauisher.
1657 L. Carlell iii. 43 I am no ravisher.
1690 J. Dryden iii. 53 This hand and this [sword], have been acquainted well;..It shou'd have come before into my grasp, To kill the Ravisher.
1712 A. Pope Rape of Locke ii, in 365 Gods! shall the Ravisher display this Hair?
1750 S. Johnson No. 77. ⁋14 The giddy libertine, or drunken ravisher.
1796 M. Hays I. vii. 36 You will persuade Emma, that the age of chivalry is not yet over; and that giants and ravishers are as common now, as in the time of Charlemagne.
1801 Poetry 851 Without love I had stray'd, Till at length a sweet ravisher came.
1851 D. Wilson iv. iii. 519 Pure silver found in the..tumulus by its unprincipled ravisher.
?a1958 E. M. Forster Torque in (1972) 158 This ravisher covers her, his hot breath beats back her prayers, and his member—and they are membered like horses.
1991 7 Jan. (Brisbane ed.) 7/5 (headline) An irresistible ravisher wins love at first sight.