All 5 Uses of
rapture
in
Brave New World
- The warm glory of afternoon sunlight made him start and blink his eyes. "Oh, roof!" he repeated in a voice of rapture.
p. 59..1rapture = extreme happiness
- But if she were to say yes, what rapture!
p. 64..1 *
- She looked at Bernard with an expression of rapture,
p. 85..6
- ...but of rapture in which there was no trace of agitation or excitement–for to be excited is still to be unsatisfied.
p. 85..6
- With closed eyes, his face shining with rapture, John was softly declaiming to vacancy: "Oh! she doth teach the torches to burn bright."
p. 178..0
Definition:
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(rapture as in: listened with rapture) intense desired emotion -- usually extreme happiness