Both Uses of
rapture
in
Arrowsmith
- Rarely had Martin been inspired to perceive the magic of a perfect hour, so absorbed was he ever in irascible pondering, but now he was caught, and lifted in rapture.†
Chpt 21 *
- But the rapture of being allowed to work twentyfour hours a day without leaving an experiment at its juiciest moment to creep home for dinner, of plunging with Terry into arguments as cryptic as theology and furious as the indignation of a drunken man, carried him along, and he felt himself growing sinewy.†
Chpt 40
Definition:
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(rapture as in: listened with rapture) intense desired emotion -- usually extreme happiness