ravishingn.

Brit.

/ˈravᵻʃɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈrævɪʃɪŋ/

Forms: see ravish v. and -ing suffix¹; also late Middle English reuershynge (transmission error); Scottish pre-1700 ravisheing, pre-1700 revecing; Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at Revis(s)ing) also records a form of the base pre-1700 rivis-.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ravish v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < ravish v. + -ing suffix¹. Compare ravishment n. Compare also earlier rape n.³ and later rapture n.

Now somewhat archaic.

1. The action of taking or carrying away a person by force; plundering; violation, rape; (also) an instance of this.

ΚΠ

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Macc. xiii. 34 Alle the dedis of Trifon weren don by rauyshyng [L. per direptionem].

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 118 Aboute þis lyne..þe firmament passiþ a boute wiþ endeles rauyschinge [L. raptibus].

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 7080 (MED) Al þe chesun o þat strijf Was for rauising of a wijf.

c1475 Advice to Lovers in J. O. Halliwell Select. Minor Poems J. Lydgate (1840) 36 But be wel ware of feyned cosynage,..And lordes lettres, and ravisshyng, and rage.

a1500 (a1450) Partonope of Blois (BL Add.) (1912) 11576 (MED) Priam..loste þe honour For Parys..þat he did ffavour In þe Ravesshyng [v.r. a1500 Rawl. Poet. Reuershynge] of feire Eleyne.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Nahum iii. 1 Wo to that bloudthursty cite, which is all full of lyes and robbery, & wil not leaue of from rauyszshinge.

1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Rapt, ou ravissement, rauishing or taking away by violence.

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 272 The deflouring of our daughters, the rauishing of our wiues.

1656 in J. A. Clyde Hope's Major Practicks (1938) II. 42 Barrons may cognosce upon all cryms except the four pleyes of the croune, viz: robrie, ravisheing of women, murther, and burneing.

1683 Dutch Rogue 30 He did not once relent, as Cynane of old did at the ravishing of Proserpina.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Rape,..a Ravishing, or forcible Violation of the Chastity of a Woman, or Virgin.

1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. v. 152 Ravishing he did not pretend to justify, as the laws of his country were against it.

1796 Trial W. Stone 339 He is supposed to be so rash, so mad..as to say, I expose my wife and my children to the ravishings of the soldiery.

1883 Cent. Mag. Mar. 735/1 The apostolical succession of bishops was borne in upon the Presbyterian conscience by imprisonments, gibbets,..massacres, ravishing of women, and drowning in the tide.

1939 ‘F. O'Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 71 He was by vocation a voluptuary concerned only with the ravishing and destruction of the fair sex.

1996 L. S. McNeece Art. & Pol. in Duras' India Cycle i. 29 We hear increasingly about the ravishing of indigenous people's cultural identity.

a. The action of transporting a person, soul, mind, etc., with ecstasy or delight. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > [noun] > transporting with ecstasy

ravishingc1384

blissing out1973

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds xxii. 17 It is don to me, turnynge aȝen into Jerusalem..me for to be maad in rauyssching of soule [L. in stupore mentis].

R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 86 Anoþer maner of rauischynge [L. raptus] þer is þat is lyfting of mynde in-to god be contemplacion.

1482 Monk of Evesham 112 Yn the space of hys raueshyng, he was so fully helyd that he hym selfe meruelyd.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. IIIi^v In suche hye eleuacion or rauisshyng vp of the mynde.

1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare vi. 355 This auancinge, and rauishinge of the minde, he calleth a Miracle.

1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 294 This degree of loue may be rightly called Rauishing, in which the louer is so rapt out of himselfe, that he forgetteth himselfe.

1622 G. Wither in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign James I (1847) 216 He in his troubles eased the bodie's paines By measures raised to the soule's rauishing.

1654 R. Aylett Divine & Moral Speculations 94 None high-rapted numbers can compound, Till's soule be tun'd by spheare-like ravishing.

1689 W. Jameson Verus Patroclus i. 22 The removal of the natural blindness, and pravity of the will, is enough for ravishing of the hearts into ardent Love.

1840 Cambr. Univ. Mag. 1 53 We should no longer hear the ravishing of that lute which ‘discourses such eloquent music’.

1963 G. Marshall Tennyson Handbk. ii. 66 The joys rise to a higher plane with the ravishing of the soul by intellectual and aesthetic pleasures.

2004 J. A. McGuckin Westm. Handbk. Patristic Theol. 114/1 The ravishing of the intellect..is understood in the Origenian school as a transcendence of earthly wisdom and imagery.

b. An ecstasy, a rapture. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > [noun] > instance of

rapt?a1425

trance1434

ravishing1435

ravishment1581

rapture1594

ravish1636

enravishment1661

Ananda1875

blissout1974

R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 84 (MED) Of dobylle rauischyngis [L. duplici raptu], þat is to say, owt of body & owt of lyftynge of þe mynde in to gode & of þe worþines here-of.

R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 86 Anoþer maner of rauischynge..is lyfting of mynde in-to god be contemplacion... & well þis is cald a rauischynge [L. raptus] als þe todyr, ffor with a violens it is doyne & als wer agayns kynde.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. a*viii^v The thirde..is called a rapt, or a rauisshyng of the soule.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus in Paraphr. New Test. I. Matt. iv. f.xxxi By the vehemency and rauishing of y^e spirite, he goeth into deserte, folowyng the exaumple of the olde prophetes.

1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. xcix. f. 174 Paule witnesseth that he sawe such thinges as are not lawfull for a man to speake: and this sighte or beholdinge of many is called a rauishinge, or a traunce, or a spirituall death.

a1635 R. Sibbes Learned Comm. 2 Cor. i. (1655) 480 Though it be not with me now as in those ravishings of the Spirit, yet the love of God is the same.

1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 328 The Ravishings that sometimes from above do shoot abroad in the Inward Man.

a1752 R. Burnham Pious Memorials (1753) lvi. 142 He had felt the like ravishing in spirit..after inward prayer by himself.

1852 Free Church Mag. May 221/2 In thanksgiving with heart-liftings, and heart-ravishings which cannot be expressed.

1997 E. Ross Grief of God iv. 113 In these trances, she does not see or feel anything of the world around her but is utterly absorbed in spiritual joy and gladness (though Philip says little about her experience during the ravishings).

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

ravishingadj.adv.

Brit.

/ˈravᵻʃɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈrævɪʃɪŋ/

Forms: see ravish v. and -ing suffix².

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ravish v., -ing suffix².

Etymology: < ravish v. + -ing suffix². Compare earlier ravissant adj. and the Romance adjectives cited at that entry. With the use as adverb compare earlier ravishingly adv.In ravissand (compare e.g. quots. c1350, a1500 at sense A. 1) perhaps influenced by Anglo-Norman and Middle French ravissant ravissant adj.

A. adj.

†1. Of an animal: that seizes upon prey; rapacious. Also in extended use. Obsolete.In quot. a1616 as a transferred epithet.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by eating habits > [adjective] > carnivorous > predatory

ravishingc1350

of reif1457

rapacious1647

predatory1668

predacious1713

raptorial1827

raptatory1836

raptatorial1857

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [adjective] > eating voraciously

ravishingc1350

gluttinga1575

gullowing1598

vorant1618

ingurgitated1654

glutted1667

devouring1720

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > [adjective] > having (good) appetite > greedy or voracious

yevereOE

greedy971

reavingOE

fretewil?c1225

ravissantc1300

ravishingc1350

ravenous?1387

raveningc1390

ravisablea1425

eating1483

yeverous1483

savourousa1492

yevery1531

vorax1535

gluttonisha1586

falconish1587

ravin1615

vulturous1623

ravened1627

gorb?1635

esurine1687

voracious1693

gastrolatrous1694

tigerantica1704

gutsy1803

bulimious1816

polyphagian1825

yevrisome1825

edacious1829

polyphagous1837

tigerocious1874

bulimic1886

hyperphagic1943

c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) xxi. 12 (MED) Hij maden her sautes vp me as a lyon rauissand and rumiand.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. vii. 15 Perceyue ȝe and flee fro fals prophetis, the whiche cummen to ȝou in clothingis of sheepis, bot wythynne thei ben rauyshynge wolues [a1425 L.V. as wolues of raueyn; L. lupi rapaces].

?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 147 Dragouns and diuerse maners of nedders and oþer rauyschand bestez.

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xxi. 12 Thai oppynd on me thaire mouth as lyon rawysand and rumyand.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. xxxvii. F A rauyshinge beast hath rauyshed Ioseph.

1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades ii. 24 These rauishing beasts hir to possesse, to see dost y^u not burne?

1603 T. Lodge Treat. Plague ii. sig. B4 The Plague; which like a rauishing beast depopulateth and destroyeth diuers men by death.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. i. 55 With his stealthy pace, With Tarquins rauishing strides [printed sides] .

1644 D. Buchanan Knox's Hist. Reformation Scotl. (rev. ed.) sig. *3 ^v The enemy..by craft and cunning leaveth off for a time to act the part of the Fox, and openly declares himself to be a ravishing Wolf.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 51. ⁋6 He has been used as a Pimp to ravishing Tyrants, or successful Rakes.

1858 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? ix. xv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 155 The Phenomenon must be with that ravishing marauder.

1883 Army & Navy Jrnl. (U.S.) 6 Oct. 191/2 He encourages..the utter disregard of obligations that have converted so many well-disposed tribes into scalping, burning, ravishing fiends.

2. Esp. of fast-flowing water: that carries something along or away. Cf. ravishmeal adv., ravage n. 1. Now rare.

ΚΠ

?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. i. met. v. 4 O thow makere of the wheel that bereth the sterres..and turnest the hevene with a ravysschynge [v.rr. rauyssyng, Rauessyng; L. Rapido] sweigh.

?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. i. met. v. 62 Thow governour, withdraugh and restreyne the ravysschynge flodes.

?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 102 (MED) Ravyschynge..rapidus.

1916 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily News 10 Aug. 14/4 (headline) Many are drowned in ravishing floods.

1999 News & Rec. (Greensboro, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 26 Sept. a11 Ravishing floods caused billions more dollars in damages to Ohio and several other Midwestern states.

3. That excites ecstasy, strong emotion, or sensuous pleasure; entrancing; overpowering. Also in weakened use: very attractive; charming; gorgeous.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > quality of causing joy or delight > [adjective]

hightlyOE

delitec1225

joyful1297

delightablec1300

delicatea1382

gladsomec1386

gladdingc1394

delightfula1400

deliciousc1400

delectablec1415

delighting?a1425

delitousa1425

ravishingc1430

joyous1475

delightsomec1484

wealthlya1500

delectary?c1500

sunny1565

sunshine1594

delighted1595

heartsome1596

joysome1616

gladdening1729

scrum1877

heartthrob1907

dilly1909

delish1915

zip-a-dee-doo-dah1945

the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > [adjective] > exciting rapture or ecstasy

ravishingc1430

rapting1594

raping1613

ravissant1653

transportant1660

enravishing1681

transportinga1683

subliming1796

enrapturing1801

trancing1856

trancefula1883

c1430 (c1380) G. Chaucer Parl. Fowls 198 Of instruments of strenges in acord Herde I so pleye a ravyshyng swetnesse, That God..Ne herde nevere beter.

c1450 (?c1408) J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte (1901) 3656 (MED) Whan they harpe pley, and synge, The noyse is so ravysshynge That shippes seyling by the see With her songe so fonned bee..That they be werrey necligent.

1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. *j O rauishing perswasion, to deale with a Science, whose Subiect, is so Auncient.

?1585 W. C. Aduentures Ladie Egeria sig. F3^v Not gouerned by carelesse aduenture, but seuere authority: not with rauishing fantasies, but constancy.

1606 B. Jonson Hymenaei sig. E^v What his Merit made to the Soule of our Invention, would aske to be exprest in Tunes, no lesse ravishing then his.

1648 J. Beaumont Psyche x. clxxii. 168 The senseless Sphears a ravishing Sound can make.

1676 I. Walton in I. Walton et al. Universal Angler i. xxi. 267 He would not willingly turn his eyes from that first ravishing object.

1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. i. 46 Those Ravishing, and charming Graces.

1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Matt. xvii. 4 Oh what a ravishing Comfort is the Fellowship of the Saints.

1748 H. Baker & J. Miller tr. Molière Melicerta i. iii, in Wks. IX. 321 There I saw an hundred things which were ravishing to behold.

1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer 39 If ever man was permitted to receive and enjoy some blessings.., it is certainly in the country, when he attentively considers those ravishing scenes with which he is every where surrounded.

1840 R. Browning Sordello iii. 351 Then, ravishingest lady, will you pass Or not each formidable group?

1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons of Mammon I. vii. 177 The little feet, covered with a film of open-worked silk, looked ravishing in the morocco slippers.

1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (1875) i. iv. 24 His ears drank ravishing harmonies.

1927 H. T. Lowe-Porter tr. T. Mann Magic Mountain (London ed.) I. v. 346 Frau Stöhr had read it early, and pronounced it simply ravishing.

1994 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Apr. 104/1 The most ravishing film score of the past decade was delivered from 17th-century France, courtesy of a viola da gamba virtuoso named Jordi Savall.

2001 K. Izzo & C. Marsh Fabulous Girl's Guide to Decorum (2002) 219 Missy blew into the church looking ravishing in a white, Jean Harlowesque gown.

†B. adv.

Ravishingly. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > [adverb] > in a manner exciting rapture or ecstasy

ravishingly1592

ravishing1609

transportingly1668

enravishingly1687

exaltingly1855

1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica viii. xliv. 179 Young Polixena among the rest, Most Beautifully-perfect, Rauishing sweet.

1616 N. Breton Good & Badde §8 The rauishing sweet in the musique of Honour.

1682 A. Behn City-heiress iii. i. 24 Bless us, she's ravishing fair!

1700 J. Hopkins Amasia I. i. 20 Oh! you were all, all ravishing Divine.

1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels I. 57 Devotions..like a melodious Consort ravishing Sweet.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	ravishing
释义	ravishingn. Brit. /ˈravᵻʃɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈrævɪʃɪŋ/ Forms: see ravish v. and -ing suffix¹; also late Middle English reuershynge (transmission error); Scottish pre-1700 ravisheing, pre-1700 revecing; Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at Revis(s)ing) also records a form of the base pre-1700 rivis-. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ravish v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < ravish v. + -ing suffix¹. Compare ravishment n. Compare also earlier rape n.³ and later rapture n. Now somewhat archaic. 1. The action of taking or carrying away a person by force; plundering; violation, rape; (also) an instance of this. ΚΠ c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Macc. xiii. 34 Alle the dedis of Trifon weren don by rauyshyng [L. per direptionem]. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 118 Aboute þis lyne..þe firmament passiþ a boute wiþ endeles rauyschinge [L. raptibus]. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 7080 (MED) Al þe chesun o þat strijf Was for rauising of a wijf. c1475 Advice to Lovers in J. O. Halliwell Select. Minor Poems J. Lydgate (1840) 36 But be wel ware of feyned cosynage,..And lordes lettres, and ravisshyng, and rage. a1500 (a1450) Partonope of Blois (BL Add.) (1912) 11576 (MED) Priam..loste þe honour For Parys..þat he did ffavour In þe Ravesshyng [v.r. a1500 Rawl. Poet. Reuershynge] of feire Eleyne. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Nahum iii. 1 Wo to that bloudthursty cite, which is all full of lyes and robbery, & wil not leaue of from rauyszshinge. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Rapt, ou ravissement, rauishing or taking away by violence. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 272 The deflouring of our daughters, the rauishing of our wiues. 1656 in J. A. Clyde Hope's Major Practicks (1938) II. 42 Barrons may cognosce upon all cryms except the four pleyes of the croune, viz: robrie, ravisheing of women, murther, and burneing. 1683 Dutch Rogue 30 He did not once relent, as Cynane of old did at the ravishing of Proserpina. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Rape,..a Ravishing, or forcible Violation of the Chastity of a Woman, or Virgin. 1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. v. 152 Ravishing he did not pretend to justify, as the laws of his country were against it. 1796 Trial W. Stone 339 He is supposed to be so rash, so mad..as to say, I expose my wife and my children to the ravishings of the soldiery. 1883 Cent. Mag. Mar. 735/1 The apostolical succession of bishops was borne in upon the Presbyterian conscience by imprisonments, gibbets,..massacres, ravishing of women, and drowning in the tide. 1939 ‘F. O'Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 71 He was by vocation a voluptuary concerned only with the ravishing and destruction of the fair sex. 1996 L. S. McNeece Art. & Pol. in Duras' India Cycle i. 29 We hear increasingly about the ravishing of indigenous people's cultural identity. 2. a. The action of transporting a person, soul, mind, etc., with ecstasy or delight. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > [noun] > transporting with ecstasy ravishingc1384 blissing out1973 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds xxii. 17 It is don to me, turnynge aȝen into Jerusalem..me for to be maad in rauyssching of soule [L. in stupore mentis]. R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 86 Anoþer maner of rauischynge [L. raptus] þer is þat is lyfting of mynde in-to god be contemplacion. 1482 Monk of Evesham 112 Yn the space of hys raueshyng, he was so fully helyd that he hym selfe meruelyd. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. IIIi^v In suche hye eleuacion or rauisshyng vp of the mynde. 1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare vi. 355 This auancinge, and rauishinge of the minde, he calleth a Miracle. 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 294 This degree of loue may be rightly called Rauishing, in which the louer is so rapt out of himselfe, that he forgetteth himselfe. 1622 G. Wither in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign James I (1847) 216 He in his troubles eased the bodie's paines By measures raised to the soule's rauishing. 1654 R. Aylett Divine & Moral Speculations 94 None high-rapted numbers can compound, Till's soule be tun'd by spheare-like ravishing. 1689 W. Jameson Verus Patroclus i. 22 The removal of the natural blindness, and pravity of the will, is enough for ravishing of the hearts into ardent Love. 1840 Cambr. Univ. Mag. 1 53 We should no longer hear the ravishing of that lute which ‘discourses such eloquent music’. 1963 G. Marshall Tennyson Handbk. ii. 66 The joys rise to a higher plane with the ravishing of the soul by intellectual and aesthetic pleasures. 2004 J. A. McGuckin Westm. Handbk. Patristic Theol. 114/1 The ravishing of the intellect..is understood in the Origenian school as a transcendence of earthly wisdom and imagery. b. An ecstasy, a rapture. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > [noun] > instance of rapt?a1425 trance1434 ravishing1435 ravishment1581 rapture1594 ravish1636 enravishment1661 Ananda1875 blissout1974 R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 84 (MED) Of dobylle rauischyngis [L. duplici raptu], þat is to say, owt of body & owt of lyftynge of þe mynde in to gode & of þe worþines here-of. R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 86 Anoþer maner of rauischynge..is lyfting of mynde in-to god be contemplacion... & well þis is cald a rauischynge [L. raptus] als þe todyr, ffor with a violens it is doyne & als wer agayns kynde. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. aviii^v The thirde..is called a rapt, or a rauisshyng of the soule. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus in Paraphr. New Test.* I. Matt. iv. f.xxxi By the vehemency and rauishing of y^e spirite, he goeth into deserte, folowyng the exaumple of the olde prophetes. 1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. xcix. f. 174 Paule witnesseth that he sawe such thinges as are not lawfull for a man to speake: and this sighte or beholdinge of many is called a rauishinge, or a traunce, or a spirituall death. a1635 R. Sibbes Learned Comm. 2 Cor. i. (1655) 480 Though it be not with me now as in those ravishings of the Spirit, yet the love of God is the same. 1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 328 The Ravishings that sometimes from above do shoot abroad in the Inward Man. a1752 R. Burnham Pious Memorials (1753) lvi. 142 He had felt the like ravishing in spirit..after inward prayer by himself. 1852 Free Church Mag. May 221/2 In thanksgiving with heart-liftings, and heart-ravishings which cannot be expressed. 1997 E. Ross Grief of God iv. 113 In these trances, she does not see or feel anything of the world around her but is utterly absorbed in spiritual joy and gladness (though Philip says little about her experience during the ravishings). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). ravishingadj.adv. Brit. /ˈravᵻʃɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈrævɪʃɪŋ/ Forms: see ravish v. and -ing suffix². Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ravish v., -ing suffix². Etymology: < ravish v. + -ing suffix². Compare earlier ravissant adj. and the Romance adjectives cited at that entry. With the use as adverb compare earlier ravishingly adv.In ravissand (compare e.g. quots. c1350, a1500 at sense A. 1) perhaps influenced by Anglo-Norman and Middle French ravissant ravissant adj. A. adj. †1. Of an animal: that seizes upon prey; rapacious. Also in extended use. Obsolete.In quot. a1616 as a transferred epithet. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by eating habits > [adjective] > carnivorous > predatory ravishingc1350 of reif1457 rapacious1647 predatory1668 predacious1713 raptorial1827 raptatory1836 raptatorial1857 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [adjective] > eating voraciously ravishingc1350 gluttinga1575 gullowing1598 vorant1618 ingurgitated1654 glutted1667 devouring1720 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > [adjective] > having (good) appetite > greedy or voracious yevereOE greedy971 reavingOE fretewil?c1225 ravissantc1300 ravishingc1350 ravenous?1387 raveningc1390 ravisablea1425 eating1483 yeverous1483 savourousa1492 yevery1531 vorax1535 gluttonisha1586 falconish1587 ravin1615 vulturous1623 ravened1627 gorb?1635 esurine1687 voracious1693 gastrolatrous1694 tigerantica1704 gutsy1803 bulimious1816 polyphagian1825 yevrisome1825 edacious1829 polyphagous1837 tigerocious1874 bulimic1886 hyperphagic1943 c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) xxi. 12 (MED) Hij maden her sautes vp me as a lyon rauissand and rumiand. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. vii. 15 Perceyue ȝe and flee fro fals prophetis, the whiche cummen to ȝou in clothingis of sheepis, bot wythynne thei ben rauyshynge wolues [a1425 L.V. as wolues of raueyn; L. lupi rapaces]. ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 147 Dragouns and diuerse maners of nedders and oþer rauyschand bestez. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xxi. 12 Thai oppynd on me thaire mouth as lyon rawysand and rumyand. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. xxxvii. F A rauyshinge beast hath rauyshed Ioseph. 1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades ii. 24 These rauishing beasts hir to possesse, to see dost y^u not burne? 1603 T. Lodge Treat. Plague ii. sig. B4 The Plague; which like a rauishing beast depopulateth and destroyeth diuers men by death. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. i. 55 With his stealthy pace, With Tarquins rauishing strides [printed sides] . View more context for this quotation 1644 D. Buchanan Knox's Hist. Reformation Scotl. (rev. ed.) sig. 3 ^v The enemy..by craft and cunning leaveth off for a time to act the part of the Fox, and openly declares himself to be a ravishing Wolf. 1711 R. Steele Spectator* No. 51. ⁋6 He has been used as a Pimp to ravishing Tyrants, or successful Rakes. 1858 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? ix. xv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 155 The Phenomenon must be with that ravishing marauder. 1883 Army & Navy Jrnl. (U.S.) 6 Oct. 191/2 He encourages..the utter disregard of obligations that have converted so many well-disposed tribes into scalping, burning, ravishing fiends. 2. Esp. of fast-flowing water: that carries something along or away. Cf. ravishmeal adv., ravage n. 1. Now rare. ΚΠ ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. i. met. v. 4 O thow makere of the wheel that bereth the sterres..and turnest the hevene with a ravysschynge [v.rr. rauyssyng, Rauessyng; L. Rapido] sweigh. ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. i. met. v. 62 Thow governour, withdraugh and restreyne the ravysschynge flodes. ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 102 (MED) Ravyschynge..rapidus. 1916 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily News 10 Aug. 14/4 (headline) Many are drowned in ravishing floods. 1999 News & Rec. (Greensboro, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 26 Sept. a11 Ravishing floods caused billions more dollars in damages to Ohio and several other Midwestern states. 3. That excites ecstasy, strong emotion, or sensuous pleasure; entrancing; overpowering. Also in weakened use: very attractive; charming; gorgeous. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > quality of causing joy or delight > [adjective] hightlyOE delitec1225 joyful1297 delightablec1300 delicatea1382 gladsomec1386 gladdingc1394 delightfula1400 deliciousc1400 delectablec1415 delighting?a1425 delitousa1425 ravishingc1430 joyous1475 delightsomec1484 wealthlya1500 delectary?c1500 sunny1565 sunshine1594 delighted1595 heartsome1596 joysome1616 gladdening1729 scrum1877 heartthrob1907 dilly1909 delish1915 zip-a-dee-doo-dah1945 the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > [adjective] > exciting rapture or ecstasy ravishingc1430 rapting1594 raping1613 ravissant1653 transportant1660 enravishing1681 transportinga1683 subliming1796 enrapturing1801 trancing1856 trancefula1883 c1430 (c1380) G. Chaucer Parl. Fowls 198 Of instruments of strenges in acord Herde I so pleye a ravyshyng swetnesse, That God..Ne herde nevere beter. c1450 (?c1408) J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte (1901) 3656 (MED) Whan they harpe pley, and synge, The noyse is so ravysshynge That shippes seyling by the see With her songe so fonned bee..That they be werrey necligent. 1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. j O rauishing perswasion, to deale with a Science, whose Subiect, is so Auncient. ?1585 W. C. Aduentures Ladie Egeria* sig. F3^v Not gouerned by carelesse aduenture, but seuere authority: not with rauishing fantasies, but constancy. 1606 B. Jonson Hymenaei sig. E^v What his Merit made to the Soule of our Invention, would aske to be exprest in Tunes, no lesse ravishing then his. 1648 J. Beaumont Psyche x. clxxii. 168 The senseless Sphears a ravishing Sound can make. 1676 I. Walton in I. Walton et al. Universal Angler i. xxi. 267 He would not willingly turn his eyes from that first ravishing object. 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. i. 46 Those Ravishing, and charming Graces. 1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Matt. xvii. 4 Oh what a ravishing Comfort is the Fellowship of the Saints. 1748 H. Baker & J. Miller tr. Molière Melicerta i. iii, in Wks. IX. 321 There I saw an hundred things which were ravishing to behold. 1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer 39 If ever man was permitted to receive and enjoy some blessings.., it is certainly in the country, when he attentively considers those ravishing scenes with which he is every where surrounded. 1840 R. Browning Sordello iii. 351 Then, ravishingest lady, will you pass Or not each formidable group? 1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons of Mammon I. vii. 177 The little feet, covered with a film of open-worked silk, looked ravishing in the morocco slippers. 1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (1875) i. iv. 24 His ears drank ravishing harmonies. 1927 H. T. Lowe-Porter tr. T. Mann Magic Mountain (London ed.) I. v. 346 Frau Stöhr had read it early, and pronounced it simply ravishing. 1994 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Apr. 104/1 The most ravishing film score of the past decade was delivered from 17th-century France, courtesy of a viola da gamba virtuoso named Jordi Savall. 2001 K. Izzo & C. Marsh Fabulous Girl's Guide to Decorum (2002) 219 Missy blew into the church looking ravishing in a white, Jean Harlowesque gown. †B. adv. Ravishingly. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > [adverb] > in a manner exciting rapture or ecstasy ravishingly1592 ravishing1609 transportingly1668 enravishingly1687 exaltingly1855 1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica viii. xliv. 179 Young Polixena among the rest, Most Beautifully-perfect, Rauishing sweet. 1616 N. Breton Good & Badde §8 The rauishing sweet in the musique of Honour. 1682 A. Behn City-heiress iii. i. 24 Bless us, she's ravishing fair! 1700 J. Hopkins Amasia I. i. 20 Oh! you were all, all ravishing Divine. 1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels I. 57 Devotions..like a melodious Consort ravishing Sweet. 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