Elizabeth listened with rapture to everyday incidents of family life.
I will say that, in certain scenes of revelatory rapture, Updike has rarely been better.
Never had he known such rapture.
Rather than feeling uncomfortable in his clothing, a kind of congenial rapture spread through me.
The constant stream of praise burbling in the background of the class swelled into shouts of rapture.
The effect is finally to provoke analysis rather than rapture or rationalization.
1 literary great excitement and happiness: The boys gazed up at him in rapture.2be in raptures/go into raptures British English formal to express or feel great pleasure and happiness about somethingrapture over/about/at She went into raptures about the climate, the food, the spring flowers.