All 7 Uses of
rapture
in
Jane Eyre
- Adele, indeed, no sooner saw Mrs. Fairfax, than she summoned her to her sofa, and there quickly filled her lap with the porcelain, the ivory, the waxen contents of her "boite;" pouring out, meantime, explanations and raptures in such broken English as she was mistress of.†
p. 153.1
- She pulled out of her box, about ten minutes ago, a little pink silk frock; rapture lit her face as she unfolded it; coquetry runs in her blood, blends with her brains, and seasons the marrow of her bones.†
p. 163.2
- Be sure that is the only tie he seriously acknowledges between you and him; so don't make him the object of your fine feelings, your raptures, agonies, and so forth.†
p. 189.8 *
- There was a heaven — a temporary heaven —in this room for me, if I chose: I had but to go in and to say "Mr. Rochester, I will love you and live with you through life till death," and a fount of rapture would spring to my lips.†
p. 368.7
- "It is strange," pursued he, "that while I love Rosamond Oliver so wildly — with all the intensity, indeed, of a first passion, the object of which is exquisitely beautiful, graceful, fascinating —I experience at the same time a calm, unwarped consciousness that she would not make me a good wife; that she is not the partner suited to me; that I should discover this within a year after marriage; and that to twelve months' rapture would succeed a lifetime of regret.†
p. 431.2
- And then there are other chances in life far more thrilling and rapture-giving: THIS is solid, an affair of the actual world, nothing ideal about it: all its associations are solid and sober, and its manifestations are the same.†
p. 441.2
- It was a sudden meeting, and one in which rapture was kept well in check by pain.†
p. 497.7
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