enravishment
English
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editenravishment (countable and uncountable, plural enravishments)
- The state of being enravished or enraptured; ecstasy or bliss.
- 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
- they contract a kind of splendour from the seemingly obscuring veil; which adds to the enravishments of her transported admirers
References
edit- “enravishment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.