ravishment Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment
    entrancement.
  2. noun the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will
    violation; assault; rape.

WordNet

Rav"ish*ment noun
Etymology
F. ravissement. See Ravish.
Definitions
  1. The act of carrying away by force or against consent; abduction; as, the ravishment of children from their parents, or a ward from his guardian, or of a wife from her husband. Blackstone.
  2. The state of being ravished; rapture; transport of delight; ecstasy. Spencer.
    In whose sight all things joy, with ravishment Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze. Milton.
  3. The act of ravishing a woman; rape.

Webster 1913