ravishment

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: rav=ish=ment

CIDE DICTIONARY

ravishment, n. [F. ravissement. See Ravish.].

•  The act of carrying away by force or against consent; abduction; as, the ravishment of children from their parents, of a ward from his guardian, or of a wife from her husband.  Blackstone.  [1913 Webster]
•  The state of being ravished; rapture; transport of delight; ecstasy.  Spenser.  [1913 Webster]

  "In whose sight all things joy, with ravishment
  Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze."  [1913 Webster]
•  The act of ravishing a woman; rape.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

ravishment

abandon, abuse, banditry, beatification, beatitude, betrayal, bewitchment, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, brigandage, brigandism, cheer, cheerfulness, cloud nine, craze, criminal assault, debauchment, defilement, defloration, deflowering, deflowerment, delectation, delight, delirium, depredation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, devirgination, direption, ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, enchantment, exaltation, exhilaration, exuberance, felicity, fire and fury, foraging, foray, freebooting, frenzy, furor, furore, fury, gaiety, gladness, glee, happiness, heaven, high spirits, hysteria, intoxication, joy, joyance, joyfulness, looting, madness, marauding, orgasm, orgy, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, paradise, passion, pillage, pillaging, plunder, plundering, priapism, rage, raid, raiding, ransacking, rape, rapine, rapture, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, razzia, reiving, rifling, sack, sacking, seducement, seduction, seventh heaven, sexual assault, sexual possession, spoiling, spoliation, sunshine, taking, tearing passion, towering rage, transport, unalloyed happiness, violation

ROGET THESAURUS

ravishment

Pleasure

N pleasure, gratification, enjoyment, fruition, oblectation, delectation, delection, relish, zest, gusto, satisfaction, complacency, well-being, good, snugness, comfort, ease, cushion, sans souci, without worry, mind at ease, joy, gladness, delight, glee, cheer, sunshine, cheerfulness, treat, refreshment, amusement, luxury, mens sana in corpore sano, a sound mind in a sound body, happiness, felicity, bliss, beatitude, beautification, enchantment, transport, rapture, ravishment, ecstasy, summum bonum, paradise, elysium, third heaven, seventh heaven, cloud nine, unalloyed happiness, hedonics, hedonism, honeymoon, palmy days, halcyon days, golden age, golden time, Dixie, Dixie's land, Saturnia regna, Arcadia, Shangri-La, happy valley, Agapemone, pleased, not sorry, glad, gladsome, pleased as Punch, happy, blest, blessed, blissful, beatified, happy as a clam at high water, happy as a clam, happy as a king, happy as the day is long, thrice happy, ter quaterque beatus, enjoying, joyful, hedonic, in a blissful state, in paradise, in raptures, in ecstasies, in a transport of delight, comfortable, at ease, content, sans souci, overjoyed, entranced, enchanted, enraptures, enravished, transported, fascinated, captivated, with a joyful face, with sparkling eyes, pleasing, ecstatic, beatic, painless, unalloyed, without alloy, cloudless, happily, with pleasure, with glee, one's heart leaping with joy, a wilderness of sweets, I wish you all the joy that you can wish, jour de ma vie, joy ruled the day and love the night, joys season'd high and tasting strong of guilt, oh happiness, our being's end and aim!, there is a pleasure that is born of pain, throned on highest bliss, vedi Napoli e poi muori, zwischen Freud und Leid ist die Brucke nicht weit, the bridge between joy and sorrow is not wide.