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rapturous
Part of Speech: Noun
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1. Ecstatic; transporting; ravishing; feeling, expressing, or manifesting rapture; as, rapturous joy, pleasure, or delight; rapturous applause.
Examples of usage:
- Was this love, she wondered, that lay upon her eyes like the dew of a Spring morning, that made the air vocal with rapturous song, and wrought white magic in her soul? - "Lavender and Old Lace", Myrtle Reed.
- Even the great poet that loved her- and I keep his love- book on my shelf to this hour, wedged in between a regiment of the Fathers- even Dante has told us nothing that shall serve to make the ages yet to come understand what the woman was like that a man could love with so rapturous a madness of passion. - "The God of Love", Justin Huntly McCarthy.
- A little smile hovered on her lips, tender, rapturous. - "The Iron Furrow", George C. Shedd.