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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of enravish.

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Examples

  • "Following instructions from Ben Reich, you captivated the man, enravished him, turned him into a derelict from duty, kept him at a piano all day, day after day, and ---"

    Wild Dreams of Reality, 5 2010

  • Alone, enravished, he often wandered far in sheer joy of living.

    The Re-Creation of Brian Kent Harold Bell Wright 1908

  • For a little season he stood there gazing, gloating, enravished, like to hug himself in the keen titillation of his ecstasy and this was not all because this lovely being was his, but because he was hers.

    The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton Wardon Allan Curtis 1903

  • The ear of mortal never heard such a delirious, delicious, such a crystalline, argentine, ivory-smooth, velvety-soft, such a ravishing, such an enravished tumult of sweet voices.

    The Lady Paramount Henry Harland 1883

  • Some turned towards Thee, and detached themselves from all except Thee, and sanctified their souls from the world and all that is therein, and were so enravished by the sweetness of Thy voice that they forsook all Thou hadst created in the kingdom of Thy creation.

    Prayers and Meditations 1817-1892 Bah��'u'll��h 1854

  • Praised be Thou, O Lord my God! Every time I am reminded of Thee and muse on Thy virtues, I am seized with such ecstasies and am so enravished by

    Prayers and Meditations 1817-1892 Bah��'u'll��h 1854

  • Thou art He Who, through a word of Thy mouth, hath so enravished the hearts of Thy chosen ones that they have, in their love for Thee, detached themselves from all except Thyself, and laid down their lives and sacrificed their souls in Thy path, and borne, for Thy sake, what none of

    Prayers and Meditations 1817-1892 Bah��'u'll��h 1854

  • When, as they were visiting one night their mother's tomb, her spirit, in the gentle form she wore on earth, rose from out of it before their enravished eyes, and counselled them, as they loved their honoured father's memory, to go and search him out, and bring him back in safety to his native land.

    The Seven Champions of Christendom William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • Saint George and his Squire travelled on day after day, mounting higher and higher till they reached a region where the heat was no longer so oppressive as in the plains, and where scenes new and beautiful opened on their enravished sight.

    The Seven Champions of Christendom William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • She bent over him, enravished by the brilliant bloom of his creamy skin and the black blaze of his eyes, which had been black from birth, as hardly any children's are; turned him over and kissed the delicate crook of his knees and the straight column of his spine and the little square wings of his shoulder-blades, and then she turned him back again and jeered at him because he wore the phlegmatic, pasha-like smile of an adored baby.

    The Judge Rebecca West 1937

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