All 5 Uses of
rapture
in
Catch-22
- The next week the squadron won the red flag, and Lieutenant Scheisskopf was beside himself with rapture.†
Chpt 8
- Colonel Korn saw and quivered with uncontainable rapture.†
Chpt 21 *
- Nately moved to her in a happy daze, so overcome with rapture that he hardly minded when her kid sister interrupted him again by flying into the room and flinging herself down onto the bed between them.†
Chpt 33
- He felt himself falling, falling ecstatically in love with her as she kissed him again and again with lips that were steaming and wet and soft and hard, mumbling deep sounds to him adoringly in an incoherent oblivion of rapture, one caressing hand on his back slipping deftly down inside his trouser belt while the other groped secretly and treacherously about on the floor for the bread knife and found it.†
Chpt 38
- 'Sweden!' cried the chaplain, shaking his head up and down with gleeful rapture and prancing about uncontrollably from spot to spot in a grinning, delicious frenzy.†
Chpt 42
Definition:
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(rapture as in: listened with rapture) intense desired emotion -- usually extreme happiness