ravisher
ravisher noun: one who ravishes.
Noun
ravisher (plural ravishers)
- One who ravishes.
- Fred[erick]. Traytor, doſt dravv upon thy Prince? / Cur[tius]. Your Pardon Sir, I meant it on a Raviſher. / A foul miſguided Villain. / One that ſcarce merits the brave name of Man. / One that betrays his friend, forſakes his VVife; / And vvould commit a Rape upon my Miſtreſs.1671, A[phra] Behn, The Amorous Prince, or, The Curious Husband. A Comedy, […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for Thomas Dring, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 37
- And he tasted in the language of memory ambered wines, dying fallings of sweet airs, the proud pavan: and saw with the eyes of memory kind gentlewomen in Covent Garden wooing from their balconies with sucking mouths and the pox fouled wenches of the taverns and young wives that, gaily yielding to...1916, James Joyce, chapter V, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 274
Forms of ravisher
| plural | ravishers |
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Origin of ravisher
From ravish + -er.
Questions about ravisher
- What does ravisher mean?
- Ravisher means one who ravishes.
- What part of speech is ravisher?
- Ravisher is a noun.
- What is the plural of ravisher?
- The plural of ravisher is ravishers.
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