All 4 Uses of
rapture
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- He went out, trembling all over from a sort of wild hysterical sensation, in which there was an element of insufferable rapture.†
Chpt 2.6
- He laid both hands on her shoulders and looked at her with a sort of rapture.†
Chpt 2.7
- Of course I should have vowed eternal love, rapture, and so on.†
Chpt 6.4 *
- He fell to the earth on the spot.... He knelt down in the middle of the square, bowed down to the earth, and kissed that filthy earth with bliss and rapture.†
Chpt 6.8
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