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Definition of Rapturousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rapturousness
Literary usage of Rapturousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1902)
"1 Once more, there are plenty of men, constitutionally sombre men, in whose
religious life this rapturousness is lacking. They are religious in the wider ..."
2. On Contemporary Literature by Stuart Pratt Sherman (1917)
"... ignorant rebelliousness and rapturousness of girlhood through a brief ill-advised
matrimonial adventure to the vibrant, hopeful, open-eyed egoism and ..."
3. The Bird by Jules Michelet (1869)
"I doubt not that already the rapturousness of his life breaks upon him—the tender
intimacy of the nest, the little lowly dwelling which would have been his ..."
4. The Spiritual Magazine (1875)
"... 'Tis some Eolian harp," And swoon in trance for very rapturousness, Your voice
shall reach me, " Alice, why so sad, For love is constant over? ..."
5. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1898)
"... light all that he has dreamed of rapturousness and blessedness, you are
threatened with a blinding kiss if you look abashed:—if her voice shall dare ..."
6. The Unitarian Review edited by Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen (1874)
"... instinct with the most earnest faith and love, and marked by a peculiar lyrical
power and unusual richness of expression and rapturousness of feeling, ..."
7. The Layman's Breviary,: Or Meditations for Every Day in the Year by Leopold Schefer, Charles Timothy Brooks (1895)
"... 'T is little that the best can bring to pass. Whereby then shall we measure
life ? By years ? By rapturousness of joy ? Can images Of fairest hours hide ..."
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