rapturously


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rap·tur·ous

 (răp′chər-əs)
adj.
Filled with or characterized by great joy or rapture; ecstatic.

rap′tur·ous·ly adv.
rap′tur·ous·ness n.
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Adv.1.rapturously - in an ecstatic manner; "he reacted ecstatically to my plan to travel to Africa"
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Translations
بِفَرَحٍ شَديد، بِنَشْوَه
s nadšením
henrykt
elragadtatottan
meî hrifningu
s nadšením
kendinden geçerek

rapturously

[ˈræptʃərəslɪ] ADV [applaud] → con entusiasmo; [look] → con embeleso
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

rapturously

adv applaud, receivestürmisch, begeistert; exclaimentzückt; lookverzückt, hingerissen
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

rapturously

[ˈræptʃrəslɪ] (liter) adv (smile) → estaticamente; (welcome, praise, applaud) → entusiasticamente
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

rapture

(ˈrӕptʃə) noun
great delight.
ˈrapturous adjective
showing great delight. They gave him a rapturous welcome.
ˈrapturously adverb
in raptures
greatly delighted. She was in raptures about her beautiful new car.
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References in classic literature ?
Silas Sloane's barrens this very minute," she said rapturously.
Anna Mikhaylovna also had of late visited them less frequently, seemed to hold herself with particular dignity, and always spoke rapturously and gratefully of the merits of her son and the brilliant career on which he had entered.
"Oh, my dear, dear aunt," she rapturously cried, "what delight!
There she goes, now, gazing rapturously at her own toes and murmuring "pittie"--two-foot-ten of conceit and vanity, to say nothing of other wickednesses.
Simpson, who ordinarily sat elsewhere at the town's expense), they warmed themselves rapturously in the vision of the banquet lamp, which speedily be- came to them more desirable than food, drink, or clothing.
He greets me rapturously, and whispers, with many nods and winks, 'Trotwood, you will be glad to hear that I shall finish the Memorial when I have nothing else to do, and that your aunt's the most extraordinary woman in the world, sir!'
Dorothy threw her arms around her little friend and hugged and kissed her rapturously, and Toto barked joyfully and Button-Bright smiled a happy smile and consented to sit on the soft cushions close beside the Princess.
"With you?--in your bed?" she cried rapturously. "Oh, Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, how perfectly lovely of you!
"Not you it was performed that noble act of forgiveness, at which I was moved to ecstasy, and everyone else too, but He, working within your heart," said Countess Lidia Ivanovna, raising her eyes rapturously, "and so you cannot be ashamed of your act."
She appeared affected by different feelings; wiping a few tears from her lovely eyes, she held out her hand to Felix, who kissed it rapturously and called her, as well as I could distinguish, his sweet Arabian.
"How clever I am!" he crowed rapturously, "oh, the cleverness of me!"
In a few minutes they could distinguish him to be a gentleman; and in a moment afterwards Marianne rapturously exclaimed,