All 6 Uses of
rapture
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- He listened in a sort of rapture, and forgetfulness of everything.†
Chpt 1.2.3
- A goodly number of bourgeois are "sauntering," as we say, here and there, turning over with their feet the extinct brands of the bonfire, going into raptures in front of the Pillar House, over the memory of the fine hangings of the day before, and to-day staring at the nails that secured them a last pleasure.†
Chpt 1.6.2
- But this remark emboldened him: "You love me!" he said with rapture, and he threw his arm round the gypsy's waist.†
Chpt 2.7.8
- I beheld your foot, that foot which I would have given an empire to kiss and die, that foot, beneath which to have had my head crushed I should have felt such rapture,—I beheld it encased in that horrible boot, which converts the limbs of a living being into one bloody clod.†
Chpt 2.8.4 *
- And she tried to stretch towards him arms trembling with love and rapture, but they were bound.†
Chpt 2.8.6
- She addressed to her a thousand other extravagant remarks, whose accent constituted their sole beauty, disarranged the poor girl's garments even to the point of making her blush, smoothed her silky hair with her hand, kissed her foot, her knee, her brow, her eyes, was in raptures over everything.†
Chpt 2.11.1
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