All 3 Uses of
rapture
in
The Mill on the Floss
- The hovering thought that they must and would renounce each other made this moment of mute confession more intense in its rapture.†
Chpt 6.10 *
- He murmured forth in fragmentary sentences his happiness, his adoration, his tenderness, his belief that their life together must be heaven, that her presence with him would give rapture to every common day; that to satisfy her lightest wish was dearer to him than all other bliss; that everything was easy for her sake, except to part with her; and now they never would part; he would belong to her forever, and all that was his was hers,—had no value for him except as it was hers.†
Chpt 6.13
- I told you long ago that I had never been resigned even to the mediocrity of my powers; how could I be resigned to the loss of the one thing which had ever come to me on earth with the promise of such deep joy as would give a new and blessed meaning to the foregoing pain,—the promise of another self that would lift my aching affection into the divine rapture of an ever-springing, ever-satisfied want?†
Chpt 7.3
Definition:
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(rapture as in: listened with rapture) intense desired emotion -- usually extreme happiness