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Definition of Rapturous
1. Adjective. Feeling great rapture or delight.
Similar to: Joyous
Derivative terms: Ecstasy, Ecstasy, Rapture, Rapture
Definition of Rapturous
1. a. Ecstatic; transporting; ravishing; feeling, expressing, or manifesting rapture; as, rapturous joy, pleasure, or delight; rapturous applause.
Definition of Rapturous
1. Adjective. The state or condition of being full of rapture ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rapturous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rapturous
Literary usage of Rapturous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1858)
"... what profit they were to derive from it, or why Bysshe should write about it
in such rapturous strains; why so much " unabated and unconquerable ardour ..."
2. Italy: With Sketches of Spain and Portugal by William Beckford (1835)
"Curious assemblage in his long pompous gallery.—Deplorable ditty by an eastern
dilettante.—A bolero in the most rapturous style. ..."
3. The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal by Francis Asbury (1821)
"... of religion nor of liberty to destroy it; Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians,
in the highest flights of rapturous piety, still maintain and defend it. ..."
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