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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a rapturous manner; with rapture; ecstatically.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a rapturous manner.

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  • adverb In a rapturous manner.

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  • adverb in an ecstatic manner

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Examples

  • Page view page image: to Rose, who repeated the phrase rapturously to

    Tales of the Jazz Age 1922

  • "We're goin 'to show' em!" whispered Key delightedly to Rose, who repeated the phrase rapturously to a man on the other side.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 1918

  • “We’re goin’ to show ’em!” whispered Key delightedly to Rose, who repeated the phrase rapturously to a man on the other side.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

  • "See," she called rapturously to Dan, "this is going to be a pig!

    The Puritan Twins Lucy Fitch Perkins 1901

  • But the commandant lay in careless security upon his soft, white couch; his eyes were closed; they could not pierce the dark cell where a fellow-man, with loudly-beating heart, but silent lips, called rapturously to the fair goddess Liberty, and hastened to clasp her in his arms.

    Frederick the Great and His Family Chapman Coleman 1843

  • The microscopically self-analyzing and charismatic Benjamin-the Harold Brodkey of his time-was drawn to Belle's frankness and intelligence, found her "so original and lively," and her company so unconventional and invigorating, that he gave himself up "rapturously" to her company.

    Something About Beauty And Integrity 1998

  • The microscopically self-analyzing and charismatic Benjamin-the Harold Brodkey of his time-was drawn to Belle's frankness and intelligence, found her "so original and lively," and her company so unconventional and invigorating, that he gave himself up "rapturously" to her company.

    Something About Beauty And Integrity 1998

  • "Oh, so many things have happened," rapturously, "since you went away.

    Glory of Youth Temple Bailey 1912

  • Ms. Thurman writes rapturously about pine nuts, of the ways in which pine nuts can "improve most dishes."

    George Mitrovich: The New Yorker, Pine Nuts & China George Mitrovich 2011

  • Ms. Thurman writes rapturously about pine nuts, of the ways in which pine nuts can "improve most dishes."

    George Mitrovich: The New Yorker, Pine Nuts & China George Mitrovich 2011

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  • I read this in Ogle Earth blog, part of the sentence:

    Useamap.com, the map application with easy-to-remember map URLs that was rapturously reviewed on this blog a few months ago, just got better

    June 1, 2007