All 5 Uses of
rapture
in
Of Human Bondage
- He was able to gratify the passion for general knowledge which beset the headmaster; he had read all sorts of strange books beyond his years, and often Mr. Perkins, when a question was going round the room, would stop at Philip with a smile that filled the boy with rapture, and say: "Now, Carey, you tell them.'†
Chpt 15-16
- But Philip thought over all that the headmaster had said, and presently, his mind taken up entirely with the ceremo ny that was before him, a mystical rapture seized him.†
Chpt 17-18
- You will never again enjoy that careless rapture.†
Chpt 35-36
- He had thought of love as a rapture which seized one so that all the world seemed spring-like, he had looked forward to an ecstatic happiness; but this was not happiness; it was a hunger of the soul, it was a painful yearning, it was a bitter anguish, he had never known before.†
Chpt 57-58
- Occasionally she went so far as to ask him to take her out to dinner, and the offer, coming from her, filled him with rapture.†
Chpt 63-64 *
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