rapturous
[rap-cher-uh s]
- full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
- characterized by, attended with, or expressive of such rapture: rapturous praise.
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Origin of rapturous
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Contemporary Examples
Tennis dignitary Chris Evert stands behind her, forced into rapturous laughter along with 14,000 others inside the arena.
Tennis Star Li Na Says Goodbye to the Court…and Puts the Sport’s Rise in Asia in QuestionNicholas McCarvel
September 19, 2014
In Crimea, “every place is sacred to us,” Putin told his rapturous parliamentary audience.
To judge by the long and rapturous standing ovation Clinton received, Bushnell was not alone.
This month his latest foray into the underworld, RockNRolla has opened to less than rapturous reviews.
Historical Examples
In a few seconds it took fire, to Johnsons rapturous delight.
The Field of IceJules Verne
The hungry man repeated, in a rapturous croak, "Magnificent!"
A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens
Thence I passed to a rapturous description of the hunting-lodge which he had lent me.
The Prisoner of ZendaAnthony Hope
She yielded her hands, her cheeks, her lips, to Serge's rapturous kisses.
Abbe Mouret's TransgressionEmile Zola
There is no mystic enthusiasm or rapturous contemplation of ideas.
PhilebusPlato
rapturous
- experiencing or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight
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Word Origin and History for rapturous
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