Ravished
/ˈræv.ɪʃt/noun
Carried away with strong emotion, delight, or force; also an archaic past tense/past participle of ravish.
Did you know?In Middle English, ravish could mean not just “delight” but also “kidnap” or “rape,” and that violent sense sits in the word’s history like a shadow.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*rewdʰ-
“to snatch, tear away”
Latin
Latin
rapere
“to seize, snatch, carry off by force”
Late Latin
Latin
raptivus
“carried off, seized”
Old French
Old French
ravir
“to seize, carry off, abduct; later also to delight greatly”
Middle English
English
ravishen
“to seize forcibly; abduct; also to transport with delight”
Modern English
English
ravished
“overwhelmed with delight or emotion; carried away; archaic: forcibly seized”