All 15 Uses of
rapture
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- And three times she kissed the certainly charming, though rather fat, hand of Grushenka in a sort of rapture.†
Chpt 3 *
- "Perhaps there's rather too much rapture," thought Alyosha.†
Chpt 3
- But the promise that he should hear his last word on earth, that it should be the last gift to him, Alyosha, sent a thrill of rapture through his soul.†
Chpt 4
- Thou didst crave for free love and not the base raptures of the slave before the might that has overawed him for ever.†
Chpt 5
- My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, that approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy.†
Chpt 6
- I only speak from rapture, and forgive my tears, for I love the Bible.†
Chpt 6
- Seek that rapture and ecstasy.†
Chpt 6
- Something glowed in Alyosha's heart, something filled it till it ached, tears of rapture rose from his soul....He stretched out his hands, uttered a cry and waked up.†
Chpt 7
- He did not stop on the steps either, but went quickly down; his soul, overflowing with rapture, yearned for freedom, space, openness.†
Chpt 7
- in his rapture he was weeping even over those stars, which were shining to him from the abyss of space, and "he was not ashamed of that ecstasy."†
Chpt 7
- Mitya, dumb with rapture, gazed into her eyes, at her face, at her smile, and suddenly clasped her tightly in his arms and kissed her passionately.†
Chpt 8
- Of the raptures of his love he said nothing, but told them that he abandoned his determination to shoot himself, owing to "new factors in the case."†
Chpt 9
- She greeted Alyosha with cries of rapture.†
Chpt 11
- I heard the glad shrieks of the cherubim singing and shouting hosannah and the thunderous rapture of the seraphim which shook heaven and all creation, and I swear to you by all that's sacred, I longed to join the choir and shout hosannah with them all.†
Chpt 11
- the thunderous rapture of the seraphim.†
Chpt 11
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