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Ravish [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To seize and carry away by violence.

2. These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin, will quicken and accuse thee.

3. This hand shall ravish thy pretended right.

4. To have carnal knowledge of a woman by force and against her consent. Isaiah 13:16 . Zechariah 14:2 .

5. To bear away with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy; to transport.

6. Thou hast ravished my heart. Proverbs 5:19 .

Ravish [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.

2. To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.

3. To have carnal knowledge of (a woman) by force, and against her consent; to rape.

Ravished [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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

Ravished [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Ravisher [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One that takes by violence.

2. One that forces a woman to his carnal embrace.

3. One that transports with delight.

Ravisher [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who ravishes (in any sense).

Ravishing [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Delighting to rapture; transporting.

Ravishing [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A seizing and carrying away by violence.

2. Carnal knowledge by force against consent.

3. Ecstatic delight; transport.

Ravishing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Snatching or taking by violence; compelling to submit to carnal intercourse; delighting to ecstasy.

Ravishing [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Rapturous; transporting.

Ravishing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Ravishingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To extremity of delight.

Ravishingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a ravishing manner.

Ravishment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of forcing a woman to carnal connection; forcible violation of chastity.

2. Rapture; transport of delight; ecstasy; pleasing violence of the mind or senses.

3. All things joy with ravishment attracted by thy beauty still to gaze.

4. The act of carrying away; abduction; as the ravishment of children from their parents, of a ward from his guardian, or of a wife from her husband.

Ravishment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of carrying away by force or against consent; abduction; as, the ravishment of children from their parents, of a ward from his guardian, or of a wife from her husband.

2. The state of being ravished; rapture; transport of delight; ecstasy.

3. The act of ravishing a woman; rape.

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9 KJV and 3 BSB verses contain “Ravish”

Proverbs 5:19

Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.

Proverbs 5:20

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Song of Solomon 4:9

Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.

You have captured my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your neck.

Isaiah 13:16

Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.

Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.

Lamentations 5:11

They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.

Zechariah 14:2

For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

For I will gather all the nations for battle against Jerusalem, and the city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.

2 Esdras 10:22

Our psaltery is laid on the ground, our song is put to silence, our rejoicing is at an end, the light of our candlestick is put out, the ark of our covenant is spoiled, our holy things are defiled, and the name that is called upon us is almost profaned: our children are put to shame, our priests are burnt, our Levites are gone into captivity, our virgins are defiled, and our wives ravished; our righteous men carried away, our little ones destroyed, our young men are brought in bondage, and our strong men are become weak;

Judith 12:16

Now when Judith came in and sat down, Holofernes his heart was ravished with her, and his mind was moved, and he desired greatly her company; for he waited a time to deceive her, from the day that he had seen her.

Judith 16:9

Her sandals ravished his eyes, her beauty took his mind prisoner, and the fauchion passed through his neck.