Word Meanings - CONSTUPRATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of ravishing; violation; defilement. Bp. Hall.

RAVISHER
One who ravishes .
RAVISHING
Rapturous; transporting.
DEFILEMENT
The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side.
RAVISH
1. To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force. These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin Will quicken, and accuse thee. Shak. This hand shall ravish thy pretended right. Dryden. 2. To transport with joy or delight; to delight
RAVISHINGLY
In a ravishing manner.
RAVISHMENT
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
VIOLATION
The act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated. Specifically: -- Infringement; transgression; nonobservance; as, the violation of law or positive command, of covenants, promises, etc. "The violation of my
ENRAVISHINGLY
So as to throw into ecstasy.
ENRAVISHMENT
The state of being enravished or enraptured; ecstasy; rapture. Glanvill.
ENRAVISH
To transport with delight; to enrapture; to fascinate. Spenser.