Associations to the word «Ravish»

Wiktionary

RAVISH, verb. (obsolete or archaic) To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
RAVISH, verb. (transitive) (usually passive) To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.
RAVISH, verb. (transitive) (now rare) To rape.

Dictionary definition

RAVISH, verb. Force (someone) to have sex against their will; "The woman was raped on her way home at night".
RAVISH, verb. Hold spellbound.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin