RAVING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does raving mean? 

• RAVING (noun)
  The noun RAVING has 1 sense:

1. declaiming wildly

  Familiarity information: RAVING used as a noun is very rare.

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

1. in a raving manner

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAVING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Declaiming wildly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

the raving of maniacs

Hypernyms ("raving" is a kind of...):

declamation (vehement oratory)

Derivation:

rave (talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner)

• RAVING (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a raving manner

Synonyms:

raving; ravingly

Context example:

raving mad

 Context examples 

Some way down from where he had left him the unfortunate Peter was stamping and raving tenfold worse than before.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Duke had dropped the last attempt at self-command, and was pacing the room with a convulsed face and with his clenched hands raving in the air.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here I have lain, Mr. Holmes, for over nine weeks, unconscious, and raving with brain-fever.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He is mad, stark, raving mad, and it's no use my trying to stop him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

My poor husband would sit pale and listless, listening to the endless raving upon politics and upon social questions which made up our visitor’s conversation.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Drunk or raving,” said he.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

His pleadings usually culminated in involuntary raving, until it seemed to her that he was passing into a fit; but always she shook her head and denied him the freedom for which he worked himself into a passion.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

This gentleman treated me with kindness, and desired I would let him know what place I came from last, and whither I was bound; which I did in a few words, but he thought I was raving, and that the dangers I underwent had disturbed my head; whereupon I took my black cattle and sheep out of my pocket, which, after great astonishment, clearly convinced him of my veracity.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

That beck itself was then a torrent, turbid and curbless: it tore asunder the wood, and sent a raving sound through the air, often thickened with wild rain or whirling sleet; and for the forest on its banks, that showed only ranks of skeletons.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But he had fancied her in love with him; that evidently must have been his dependence; and after raving a little about the seeming incongruity of gentle manners and a conceited head, Emma was obliged in common honesty to stop and admit that her own behaviour to him had been so complaisant and obliging, so full of courtesy and attention, as (supposing her real motive unperceived) might warrant a man of ordinary observation and delicacy, like Mr. Elton, in fancying himself a very decided favourite.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)