rapturouslyadv.

1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 293 Mere Prophetick Ellipsis..spoken rapturously and ecstatically.

a1711 T. Ken Sion ii, in Wks. (1721) IV. 375 When Tears..so rapturously glide.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 229 The delicious disorder in which all my senses were rapturously lost.

1782 F. Burney Cecilia I. ii. 17 One moment he flippantly extolled the entertainments of the town; and the next, rapturously described the charms of the country.

1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility I. xvii. 222 She calls every one reserved who does not talk as fast, and admire what she admires as rapturously as herself. View more context for this quotation

1846 Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors V. cxxix. 21 [The] speech..was most rapturously praised as a fine specimen of juridical eloquence.

1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VII. lxxi. 40 They had crowded rapturously round the princely boy.

1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover v. 59 She praised it rapturously. Yet all the while, at the bottom of her soul, she knew it was nothing.

1989 A. Stevenson Bitter Fame v. 87 Sylvia wrote rapturously of her newfound happiness.