rapturousadj.
/ˈraptʃ(ə)rəs/, U.S. /ˈræp(t)ʃərəs/ 1. Of a thing: characterized by or expressive of rapture.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > rapture > [adjective]
frenetic?c1550
seraphical1581
frenetical1588
ecstatical1600
zealot1641
ecstatic1645
rapturous1656
vowed1665
seraphica1668
synagoguish1690
frantic?1715
solid1740
ecstasied1787
religionistic1842
1656 H. More Enthusiasmus Triumphatus 20 All the imaginations of love..will be farre more lively and vigorous, more piercing and rapturous, then they can be in pure Sanguine it self.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 549 A kind of Rapturous and Ecstatick Union with..The One and The Good.
1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur i. 14 Here rapt'rous Converse he with Heav'n maintains.
1723 E. Haywood Idalia 53 Pleasing Dreams and rapturous Images of Joys to come.
1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful i. §8. 14 The pleasure..is of a lively character, rapturous and violent.
1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 218 The joy of the..master..was rapturous and voluble.
1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia II. vii. 179 A shout of rapturous applause greeted this announcement.
1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. ii. iii. 300 After this first rapturous cry, Miss Thong breathed hard, quivered with delight, pressed her hands together and stared and stared.
2001 A. Danchev & D. Todman in Ld. Alanbrooke War Diaries Introd. p. xxvi Alanbrooke..would have understood the rapturous rhetoric of Vladimir Nabokov..only too well.
2. Of a person: feeling or exhibiting rapture; ecstatic, extremely enthusiastic.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > [adjective]
ravished1549
rapt1555
rapted1567
enchanted1594
ecstatical1600
tranced1608
raptured1638
corrept1659
enravished1662
ecstatic1664
rapturous1664
sublime1667
exalted1712
enraptured1757
ecstasied1787
blissed out1973
1664 R. Cudworth Serm. Lincolnes-Inne 65 It is not at all to be wondred at..[that] the same Natural Enthusiasm..should so wing and inspire the Phancies of these Religious Orators, as to make them wonderfully fluent, eloquent and rapturous.
1750 T. Coney Serm. & Disc. upon Several Subj. & Occasions ix. 145 O Rapturous Companion!
1775 W. Mason Gray's Ode Vicissitude in Poems 79 Rise the rapt'rous choir among.
1800 J. Aikin Lett. from Father to his Son II. iv. 72 It is an usual thing for those who are the most rapturous admirers of one author, to affect the profoundest contempt for another.
1851 A. Helps Compan. Solitude iv. 47 A rapturous imaginative girl.
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems xxv. 17 Muse more rapturous, you, than any Sappho.
1915 J. Buchan Thirty-nine Steps iv. 93 At my words the cares of the ages slipped from his shoulders, and he was rapturous in his thanks.
1993 Sci. Amer. Dec. 108/3 Opponents of scientific eponomy are not so rapturous.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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