Both Uses of
rapture
in
A Room of One's Own
- The very reason why that poetry excites one to such abandonment, such rapture, is that it celebrates some feeling that one used to have (at luncheon parties before the war perhaps), so that one responds easily, familiarly, without troubling to check the feeling, or to compare it with any that one has now.†
Chpt 1
- When one so exposes it and sees it come to life one exclaims in rapture, But this is what I have always felt and known and desired!†
Chpt 4 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(rapture as in: listened with rapture) intense desired emotion -- usually extreme happiness
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(2)
(rapture as in: awaiting the rapture) belief of some Christian denominations in a second coming of Jesus when believers are expected to go to Heaven