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rapturous, a.|ˈræptjʊərəs|
Also 7–8 poet. rapt'rous.
[f. rapture n. + -ous.]
1. Characterized by, expressive or partaking of, rapture.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §36. 549 A kind of Rapturous and Ecstatick Union with..The One and The Good. 1695Blackmore Pr. Arth. i. 441 Here rapt'rous Converse he with Heav'n maintains. 1756Burke Subl. & B. i. viii, The pleasure..is of a lively character, rapturous and violent. 1802M. Edgeworth Moral T. (1816) I. xx. 178 The joy of the..master..was rapturous and voluble. 1853Kingsley Hypatia xxii. 279 A shout of rapturous applause greeted this announcement.
2. Feeling or exhibiting rapture.
1754Gray Pleasure 18 Rise the rapturous choir among. 1851Helps Comp. Solit. iv. (1874) 42 A rapturous imaginative girl. 1871R. Ellis tr. Catullus xxv. 17 Muse more rapturous, you, than any Sappho. 1885–94R. Bridges Eros & Psyche June xxvi, [We] see thee now so glad and rapturous. |