Found 2 items, similar to ravishment.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: ravishment ravishment n 1: a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment [syn: entrancement] 2: the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will [syn: rape, violation, assault]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Ravishment Ravishment \Rav"ish*ment\ (-ment), n. [F. ravissement. See Ravish.] [1913 Webster] 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. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster] 2. The state of being ravished; rapture; transport of delight; ecstasy. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] In whose sight all things joy, with ravishment Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. The act of ravishing a woman; rape. [1913 Webster]