In a ravishing manner; so as to delight or enchant.

adverb. In a ravishing manner.

adverb. In a manner so as to be considered ravishing or beautiful.

adverb. in a ravishing manner or to a ravishing degree

"Um. Once at school one of the girls said she had a 'trade-last' for me, and after I had searched the closets of memory and dragged out that some one had said she had pretty eyes, dressed it up until this some one had called her ravishingly beautiful -- after all that conscientious dishonesty what does she tell me but that some one had said"