ravissement
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁa.vis.mɑ̃/
- Rhymes: -ɑ̃
Noun
ravissement m (plural ravissements)
- ravishment
- 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter III:
- L’aube du jour commençait à poindre quand don Quichotte sortit de l’hôtellerie, si content, si glorieux, si plein de ravissement de se voir armé chevalier, que sa joie en faisait tressaillir jusqu’aux sangles de son cheval.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
- The dawn of the day was beginning to break when Don Quixote left the inn, so content, so glorious, so full of ravishment of seeing himself armed a knight, that his joy made him tremble all the way to the girths of his horse.
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Further reading
- “ravissement” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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