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
Example sentences :
  • 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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