ravisher

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If Alessandro became execrated as "The Tyrant and Ravisher of Florence," Lorenzino was scouted as "A monster and a miracle," and his depreciative nickname underwent a new spelling—"Lorenzaccio,"— "Lorenzo the Terrible!"

From The Tragedies of the Medici by Staley, Edgcumbe

This prodigy in figure of a man, Clad all in flames, with an Inscription Blazing on's head, 'Henrico the Ravisher!'

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

No stir is there in the world save that of the Glory of the One Ravisher of Hearts, and no tumult is there save the surging of the love of Him, the Incomparable, the Well-Beloved.

From Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá by `Abdu'l-Bahá

I saw the Ravisher enter just now, thy Uncle saw it too; Oh, my excessive Joy! come, if I lye—say I'm a Dog, a Villain.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Summers, Montague

So the chast Joseph unseduc’d to her Adult’ries, was pronounc’d a Ravisher.

From Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Jones, Harold Whitmore