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I've seen, heard, and used all three of these expressions at various times. I just got to wondering if there's any rhyme or reason to their preference commonly, or in any specific situation. And why?
And is there a crosspondial significance to their usage?
And how did these qualifiers attach themselves to beauty?
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Well, ravishing beauty could refere to either an incubus or a succubus, I guess.
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I never encountered raging as an intensifying attribute to beauty (meaning: quality of being beautiful) - while a raging beauty, to me, immediately suggests a female in a temper 
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The crospondial take is (I think) that we would refer to "a raving beauty", or speak of someone's "ravishing beauty" (She was a woman of ravishing beauty.) "Raging beauty" I have heard, but only rarely.
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