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!
p. 93.6rapture = extreme happiness
- In the open air their rapture broke into speech.
p. 165.3 *rapture = extreme joy
Definitions:
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(1)
(rapture as in: listened with rapture) intense desired emotion -- usually extreme happiness
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(2)
(rapture as in: awaiting the rapture) belief of some Christian denominations in a second coming of Jesus when believers are expected to go to Heaven