Definition of Rapturously

1. Adverb. In an ecstatic manner. "He reacted ecstatically to my plan to travel to Africa"

Exact synonyms: Ecstatically, Rhapsodically
Partainyms: Ecstatic, Rapturous, Rhapsodic

Definition of Rapturously

1. adv. In a rapturous manner.

Definition of Rapturously

1. Adverb. In a rapturous manner. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rapturously

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rapturously

raptorlike
raptors
raptour
rapture of the deep
raptured
raptures
rapturing
rapturist
rapturists
rapturize
rapturized
rapturizes
rapturizing
rapturous
rapturously (current term)
rapturousness
rapturousnesses
raptus
raptus hemorrhagicus
raptuses
raquet
raquetball
rara avis
rara avises
rarae aves
rare
rare-earth element
rare-earth screen
rare bird

Literary usage of Rapturously

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. On Some of Life's Ideals: On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings; What Makes by William James (1900)
"Just what this hidden presence in nature was, which Wordsworth so rapturously felt, and in the light of which he lived, tramping the hills for days together ..."

2. On Some of Life's Ideals: On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings. What Makes by William James (1900)
"Just what this hidden presence in nature was, which Wordsworth so rapturously felt, and in the light of which he lived, tramping the hills for days together ..."

3. Letters of Celia Thaxter by Celia Thaxter (1895)
"That is what I always say; nowhere else do you hear them so rapturously warble. Il did not forget that I promised to write about the birds when I reached ..."

4. Antonina: Or, The Fall of Rome by Wilkie Collins (1874)
"... of the pleasures she was about to lose, and seemed on the point of weeping as piteously as she had been laughing rapturously but the instant before. ..."

5. Wessex by Clive Holland (1906)
"... ample waist too closely for good manners, her satisfied smile and his rapturously vacant gaze do much to take off the edge of any impropriety. ..."

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