RAPTUROUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rapturously mean? 

• RAPTUROUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb RAPTUROUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in an ecstatic manner

  Familiarity information: RAPTUROUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAPTUROUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an ecstatic manner

Synonyms:

ecstatically; rapturously; rhapsodically

Context example:

he reacted ecstatically to my plan to travel to Africa

Pertainym:

rapturous (feeling great rapture or delight)

 Context examples 

Do not you know she calls every one reserved who does not talk as fast, and admire what she admires as rapturously as herself?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Oh, my dear, dear aunt, she rapturously cried, what delight! what felicity!

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“Think, ma'am,” I rapturously began, “oh!—”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In another second I was embracing and kissing her rapturously: "Bessie! Bessie! Bessie!" that was all I said; whereat she half laughed, half cried, and we both went into the parlour.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

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.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I don't think I ever ought to call myself 'unlucky Jo' again, when my greatest wish has been so beautifully gratified, said Mrs. Bhaer, taking Teddy's little fist out of the milk pitcher, in which he was rapturously churning.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Is your heart mine still, dear Dora?” said I, rapturously, for I knew by her clinging to me that it was.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In a few minutes they could distinguish him to be a gentleman; and in a moment afterwards Marianne rapturously exclaimed, "It is he; it is indeed;—I know it is!"—and was hastening to meet him, when Elinor cried out, Indeed, Marianne, I think you are mistaken.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

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!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

After delivering this speech all in a breath, and with extraordinary animation and pleasure, Mr. Peggotty put one of his large hands rapturously on each side of his niece's face, and kissing it a dozen times, laid it with a gentle pride and love upon his broad chest, and patted it as if his hand had been a lady's.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)