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ravisht

ravisht is the obsolete form of ravished.

ravisht is the simple past and past participle of ravish.

Meaning of ravished

Adjective

ravished

  1. Delighted; ecstatic
    • [W]henever the person who is possessed of [natural goodness] doth what is right, no ravished or friendly spectator is so eager or so loud in his applause: on the contrary, when he doth wrong, no critic is so apt to hiss and explode him.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  2. Having the appearance of having been ravished.

Meaning of ravish

Verb

ravish (third-person singular simple present ravishes, present participle ravishing, simple past and past participle ravished)

  1. (archaic, literary) To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
    • Again, he refers to "such ministers as discharge their ministry amiss; ravishing away the goods of the widows and fatherless; and serve themselves, not others out of those things which they have received.1862, H. L. Hastings, Pauline Theology, page 61
    Synonyms:
    abduct, kidnap
  2. (transitive, usually passive voice) To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.
    • That in things that do ravish with delight, men were not Masters of themselves, nor could they remember Gallateo's Rules; and that in time of Carnival, it was lawful to commit exorbitances.1669, Trafano Bocalini, translated by Henry Earl of Monmouth, Advertisements from Parnassus: In Two Centuries, translation of original in Italian
  3. (dated, transitive) To rape.
    • For loe that Guest would beare her forcibly, / And meant to ravish her, that rather had to dy.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x
  4. (informal) To have vigorous sexual intercourse with.

Forms of ravisht

comparativemore ravisht
superlativemost ravisht

Questions about ravisht

What is ravisht the obsolete form of?
Ravisht is the obsolete form of ravished.

Words near ravisht in the dictionary

  1. ravishingly
  2. ravishingness
  3. ravishings
  4. ravishment
  5. ravishments
  6. ravisht
  7. ravissant
  8. Ravières
  9. ravonal
  10. ravs
  11. ravuconazole

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ravisht (page history and authors); ravished (page history and authors); ravish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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