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Synonyms for ravishers
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : rav-ish |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈræv ɪʃ |
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Définition of ravishers
Origin :- c.1300, "to seize (someone) by violence, carry (a person, especially a woman) away," from Old French raviss-, present participle stem of ravir "to seize, take away hastily," from Vulgar Latin *rapire, from Latin rapere "to seize and carry off, carry away suddenly, hurry away" (see rapid). Meaning "to commit rape upon" is recorded from mid-15c. Related: Ravished; ravishing.
- As in rapist : noun attacker
- As in debaucher : noun seducer
- Sufficient to say, that we succeeded in overtaking the ravishers.
- Extract from : « The Wild Huntress » by Mayne Reid
- They only endeavoured to delay the ravishers by clinging to them.
- Extract from : « The Insect » by Jules Michelet
- Are we to have all the ravishers and plunderers in the country come to us?'
- Extract from : « A Gentleman of France » by Stanley Weyman
- The first object to which she attended was the faces of her ravishers.
- Extract from : « Damon and Delia » by William Godwin
- "You were not mistaken, uncle; that man was really one of our ravishers," Merceds replied, in a firm voice.
- Extract from : « The Trapper's Daughter » by Gustave Aimard
- It lay quite naked, though the clothes of the true child had been considerately left for it by the ravishers.
- Extract from : « The Science of Fairy Tales » by Edwin Sidney Hartland
- Failing the getting the Voivodin safe to Turkish soil, the ravishers might kill her!
- Extract from : « The Lady of the Shroud » by Bram Stoker
- The time is gone by when ladies fell in love with their ravishers; but where shall it be?
- Extract from : « Corse de Leon, Volume I (of 2) » by G. P. R. James
- Better far is it that she should become Thy bride than fall into the power of Roman ravishers.
- Extract from : « Legends of Longdendale » by Thomas Middleton
- Among the ravishers they say there were some men of low condition who had seized a remarkably tall and beautiful maiden.
- Extract from : « Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4) » by Plutarch
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