Both Uses of
rapture
in
The Phantom of the Opera
- Christine seized Raoul's hands and squeezed them with incredible rapture.†
Chpt 11
- I don't know how it was that Carlotta did not come to the theater that night nor why I was called upon to sing in her stead; but I sang with a rapture I had never known before and I felt for a moment as if my soul were leaving my body!†
Chpt 12 *
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