2. Adjective. Having the appearance of having been ravished. ¹
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Definition of Ravished
1. ravish [v] - See also: ravish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ravished
Literary usage of Ravished
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Every Day in the Year: A Poetical Epitome of the World's History by James Lauren Ford, Mary K. Ford (1902)
"The listening crowd admire the lofty With ravished ears The monarch hears, Assumes
the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. ..."
2. The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne by George Berkeley, John Dewey, Ferdinand Gregorovius, George Sampson, Annie Hamilton, Arthur James Balfour Balfour (1898)
"Minute philosophers ravished with the abstract beauty of virtue. 7. Their virtue
alone disinterested and heroic. 8. Beauty of sensible objects, what, ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... sole object ol government. whose consent had been secured by an immense
donative, the new Ca?sar(l; was ravished from his embraces by an untimely death. ..."
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