ravisher

English

Etymology

From ravish +‎ -er.

Noun

ravisher (plural ravishers)

  1. One who ravishes.
    • 1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter V, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 274:
      […] and saw with the eyes of memory kind gentlewomen in Covent Garden wooing from their balconies with sucking mouths and the pox fouled wenches of the taverns and young wives that, gaily yielding to their ravishers, clipped and clipped again.
    • 2001, Tori Carrington, You Only Love Once (Magnificent McCoy Men):
      Tonight she wanted to be the ravisher and the ravishee. She wanted to throw her hands up in the air and say “I am woman, hear me roar.” And she wanted to swallow the gorgeous guy moving toward them whole.
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