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Definition of ravisher:
Synonyms:
peach tree, beauty, hit, dishful, witness, bag, steady, kayo, spectator, truelove, smasher, debaucher, lulu, lawbreaker, smash, salmon pink, mantrap, law offender, stunner, looker, yellowish pink, violator, dish antenna, dish aerial, cup of tea, dish, watcher, beaut, sweetheart, saucer, apricot, knockout, strike, viewer, sweetie, peach, bang.
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There, wrapped in cloud of sorrow, pity move, And tell the ravisher of my soul I perish for her love: But, if she scorns my never- ceasing pain, Then burst with sighing in her sight and ne'er return again.
- "Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age", Various. -
In a word, he renounced the glorious title of a generous protector for that of a base ravisher of the wife of his ally.
- "Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers", Various. -
This man, who was a brute rather from his education and the element he inhabited than from nature, ran hastily down to her assistance, and, finding her struggling on the ground with our hero, he presently rescued her from her intended ravisher, who was soon obliged to quit the woman, in order to engage with her lusty champion, who spared neither pains nor blows in the assistance of his fair passenger.
- "The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great", Henry Fielding.