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Rapturously

Rapturously \Rap"tur*ous*ly\, adv. In a rapturous manner.

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rapturously

adv. In a rapturous manner.

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rapturously

adv. in an ecstatic manner; "he reacted ecstatically to my plan to travel to Africa" [syn: ecstatically, rhapsodically]

Usage examples of "rapturously".

But they were also smiling and blithesome, and, when they tried to describe to me their rapturous reunion, they were quite rapturously and absurdly inarticulate.

And then how rapturously joins he with the wondering choir of more stagnant worshippers, while they yield to this substantial form, this stone-transmigration of his love, this tangible, unpassionate, abiding, present deity, the holy hymns of praise, due only to the unseen God!

The Emperor was in very good spirits after his ride through Vilna, where crowds of people had rapturously greeted and followed him.

He gave each of them a cocktail sausage spirited away from the hotel buffet, and after they had gobbled their treat rapturously and washed up meticulously, he made his announcement.

Bo's raptures were not silent, and the instant the sun sank and the color faded she just as rapturously importuned Helen to get out the huge basket of food they bad brought from home.

And every year, on the twenty-third of April, Saint George landed at Megalokastro, and Murzuflos, hanging on the three bells in the dance, was the first to see him as he came up from the harbor and the first to greet him by rapturously swinging Saint Menas, Freedom and Death.

After the removal of the cloth, and the singing of Non Nobis (beautifully executed, and in which we were at no loss to distinguish the bell-like notes of that gifted amateur, WILKINS MICAWBER, ESQUIRE, JUNIOR), the usual loyal and patriotic toasts were severally given and rapturously received.

It was so exquisite, so moving that when he stood his legs felt strangely weak under him, and he snuffed it up rapturously.

Then he brought the world-renowned Turkish coffee that poets have sung so rapturously for many generations, and I seized upon it as the last hope that was left of my old dreams of Eastern luxury.