Definition of Ravishments
1. ravishment [n] - See also: ravishment
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Literary usage of Ravishments
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1. GTropología: a key to open Scripture metaphors [by B. Keach and T. Delaune by Benjamin Keach (1858)
"Also in ecstacies and ravishments, the body is, as it were, laid by as useless
and instrumental to the soul. " I knew a man in Christ fourteen years ago," ..."
2. Autobiography of Madame Guyon by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon, Thomas Taylor Allen (1897)
"THIS, then, was the prayer which was communicated to me at once, which is far
above ecstasies, ravishments, visions, etc.; for all those graces are far less ..."
3. A Selection of Cases from the State Trials ...: Trials for Treason (1327 by John William Willis Bund (1882)
"... excepted all rapes and carnal ravishments of women : and also excepted all
ravishments and wilful taking away or marrying of any maid, widow or damsel ..."
4. The Life of Gregory Lopez: A Hermit in America by Francisco de Losa, John Eyre, Thomas Parnell (1841)
"... or ravishments, which had deprived him of his senses; nor had his senses ever
occasioned in him any distraction of mind, because they were perfectly ..."
5. Louise Lateau of Bois D'Haine: Her Life, Her Ecstasies, and Her Stigmata, a by Ferdinand J. M. Lefebvre, James Spencer Northcote (1873)
"43 Such is the theory most generally accepted at the present day by the school
which undertakes to explain all ecstasies and all ravishments in a ..."
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