enravishment

English

Etymology

enravish +‎ -ment

Noun

enravishment (countable and uncountable, plural enravishments)

The state of being enravished or enraptured; ecstasy or bliss.
- 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
  they contract a kind of splendour from the seemingly obscuring veil; which adds to the enravishments of her transported admirers

References

“enravishment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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