All 5 Uses of
rapture
in
Emma
- Don't pretend to be in raptures about mine.†
Chpt 1.5-6
- Keep your raptures for Harriet's face.†
Chpt 1.5-6 *
- Every body who saw it was pleased, but Mr. Elton was in continual raptures, and defended it through every criticism.†
Chpt 1.5-6
- Mrs. Elton had received notice of it that morning, and was in raptures.†
Chpt 3.5-6
- Harriet seemed ready to worship her friend for a sentence so satisfactory; and Emma was only saved from raptures and fondness, which at that moment would have been dreadful penance, by the sound of her father's footsteps.†
Chpt 3.11-12
Definition:
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(rapture as in: listened with rapture) intense desired emotion -- usually extreme happiness