Both Uses of
rapture
in
The Scarlet Letter
- With what a ghastly rapture, as it were, too mighty to be expressed only by the eye and features, and therefore bursting forth through the whole ugliness of his figure, and making itself even riotously manifest by the extravagant gestures with which he threw up his arms towards the ceiling, and stamped his foot upon the floor!
Chpt 10rapture = extreme happiness
- In the open air their rapture broke into speech.
Chpt 23 *rapture = extreme joy
Definition:
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(rapture as in: listened with rapture) intense desired emotion -- usually extreme happiness