ravishing

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  1. adjective Extremely attractive; entrancing.

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  • Her face was dirty and her red dress was torn but she still looked ravishing, and everyone turned to stare. —  A Place Called Freedom
  • He was ready to start across at such an angle that it could put him in the intersection with Douglas Street. —  Wait For The Sunrise
  • A ravishing, wondrous, all-encompassing new place called the UnderVerse. —  The Chronicles of Riddick
  • He wasn't alone, either; outside I found the young pen-pusher blinking at me enviously, obviously wishing that he, too, could be regarded as a curiosity by ravishing orientals. —  Flashman And The Dragon
  • And that's the person I wanted to be for my ravishing wife Penelope as I half killed myself racing up two flights of stone steps in my desperate effort not to be late for the festivities being held in her honour in the upstairs rooms of a fashionable winery in London's Canary Wharf, capital of our great British newspaper industry, prior to a formal dinner for the selected few at the exclusive Kensington home of her paper's newest billionaire proprietor. —  The mission song
 

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  1. from Middle English ravisshing, ravyschynge; verbal noun of ravish, v.
 

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/ˈrævɪʃɪŋ/
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