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ravisher en · NOUN

Etymology

From ravish + -er.

Meanings

1. One who ravishes.
   • 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 their ravishers, clipped and clipped again. 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:
   • 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:
   • Tonight she wanted to be the ravisher and the ravishee. She wanted to throw her hands up in the air and say "I am woman, hear me roar." And she wanted to swallow the gorgeous guy moving toward them whole. 2001, Tori Carrington, You Only Love Once (Magnificent McCoy Men):

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