Ravish vs Entrance - What's the difference?
ravish | entrance |
(obsolete, or, archaic) To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.
* {{quote-book
, year=1873
, author=Jules Verne
, title=Around the World in 80 Days
, chapter=9
To rape.
* {{quote-book
, year=1759
, author=Voltaire
, title=Candide
, chapter=8
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
(countable) The action of entering, or going in.
The act of taking possession, as of property, or of office.
(countable) The place of entering, as a gate or doorway.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=
, title=
, chapter=1 (uncountable) The right to go in.
The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation.
* Shakespeare
* Halliwell
The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering.
(nautical) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
(nautical) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
To delight and fill with wonder.
* 1996 —
To put into a trance.
As verbs the difference between ravish and entrance
is that ravish is (obsolete|or|archaic) to seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force while entrance is to delight and fill with wonder.As a noun entrance is
(countable) the action of entering, or going in.ravish
English
Verb
(es)citation, passage=Passepartout was ravished to behold this celebrated place, and thought that, with its circular walls and dismantled fort, it looked like an immense coffee-cup and saucer.}}
citation, passage=A tall Bulgarian soldier, six feet high, perceiving that I had fainted away at this sight, attempted to ravish me; the operation brought me to my senses. I cried, I struggled, I bit, I scratched, I would have torn the tall Bulgarian’s eyes out, not knowing that what had happened at my father’s castle was a customary thing.}}
- For loe that Guest would beare her forcibly, / And meant to ravish her, that rather had to dy.
Synonyms
* abripe * (seize and carry away) kidnapDerived terms
* ravishing * ravishmententrance
English
Alternative forms
* entraunceEtymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
- Her entrance attracted no attention whatsoever.
- the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office
citation, passage=‘It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.’}}
- Place your bag by the entrance so that you can find it easily.
- You'll need a ticket to gain entrance to the museum.
- to give entrance to friends
- a difficult entrance into business
- Beware of entrance to a quarrel.
- St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology.
- His entrance of the arrival was made the same day.
- (Totten)
Synonyms
* ingangAntonyms
* (l)Etymology 2
FromVerb
(entranc)- The children were immediately entranced by all the balloons.
- See the finest girl in France make an entrance to entrance ...