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Glorious vs Rapt - What's the difference?

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Glorious is a related term of rapt.


In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between glorious and rapt

is that glorious is (obsolete) eager for glory or distinction; haughty; boastful; ostentatious; vainglorious while rapt is (obsolete) rapidity.

As adjectives the difference between glorious and rapt

is that glorious is exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory; noble; praiseworthy; excellent; illustrious; inspiring admiration; as, glorious deeds while rapt is (uncomparable|archaic) snatched, taken away; abducted.

As a verb rapt is

(obsolete) to transport or ravish.

As a noun rapt is

(obsolete) an ecstasy; a trance.

glorious

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory; noble; praiseworthy; excellent; illustrious; inspiring admiration; as, glorious deeds.
  • * 1604 , William Shakespeare, Othello , Act III, Scene III, line 351:
    • Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, / The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife, / The royal banner, and all quality, / Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war!
  • * (rfdate) (John Milton):
    • These are thy glorious works, Parent of good.
  • * '>citation
    • Borini missed another glorious opportunity to give his side the lead after brilliant set-up play by Sterling, but with only the exposed keeper to beat, he struck the post.
  • Splendid; resplendent; bright; shining, as the sun, gold, or other shiny objects.
  • * 1590 , William Shakespeare, Henry VI , Part II, Act III, Scene I, line 351:
    • And this fell tempest shall not cease to rage / Until the golden circuit on my head, / Like to the glorious sun's transparent beams, / Do calm the fury of this mad-bred flaw.
  • (obsolete) Eager for glory or distinction; haughty; boastful; ostentatious; vainglorious.
  • * 1609 , William Shakespeare, Cymbeline , Act I, Scene VI, line 6:
  • (colloquial) Ecstatic; hilarious; elated with drink.
  • * (rfdate) :
    • kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious , O’er all the ills of life victorious.
  • * (rfdate) :
    • During his office treason was no crime, The sons of Belial had a glorious time.

    Derived terms

    * gloriousness

    Related terms

    * glorify * glory

    rapt

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (uncomparable, archaic) Snatched, taken away; abducted.
  • * Chapman
    • And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt / The whirring chariot.
  • * Sir H. Wotton
    • From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Francis Bacon, to Redgrove.
  • (uncomparable) Lifted up into the air; transported into heaven.
  • (comparable) Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed; fascinated or engrossed.
    • The children watched in rapt attention as the magician produced object after object from his hat.
  • * 1851-2 , , The Necromancer'', in ''Reynolds?s Miscellany , republished 1857; 2008, page 247,
    • It was an enthusiasm of the most rapt and holy kind.
  • * 1906 , '', ''Works of Ford Madox Ford , 2011, unnumbered page,
    • Her expression grew more rapt ; she paused as if she had lost the thread of the words and then spoke again, gazing far out over the hall as jugglers do in performing feats of balancing:.
  • * 1908 ,
    • The Rat never answered, if indeed he heard. Rapt , transported, trembling, he was possessed in all his senses by this new divine thing that caught up his helpless soul and swung and dandled it, a powerless but happy infant in a strong sustaining grasp.
  • * 1998 , Derel Leebaert, Present at the Creation'', Derek Leebaert (editor), ''The Future of the Electronic Marketplace , page 24,
  • (comparable) Enthusiatic; ecstatic, elated, happy.
    • He was rapt with his exam results.
  • * Addison
    • I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.
  • * 1996 , James Richard Giles, Wanda H. Giles, American Novelists Since World War II: Fifth Series , page 139,
    • Creatures who navigate long-distance migrations — including the green turtles, wind birds, or great cranes — draw his most rapt commentaries.
  • * 2010 , Michael Reichert, Richard Hawley, Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys: Strategies that Work—and Why , John Wiley & Sons, US, page 121,
    • Even in the most rapt accounts of independent student work, there appears an appreciative acknowledgment of the teacher?s having determined just the right amount of room necessary to build autonomy without risking frustration and failure.
  • * 2010 , , I Came to Say Goodbye , page 201,
    • One bloke I met in the pub was the owner of the local meatworks. He was rapt' to have the Sudanese, and if 1600 more were coming – that was the rumour – well, he?d have been even more ' rapt .
  • * 2012 , Greig Caigou, Wild Horizons: More Great Hunting Adventures , HarperCollins (New Zealand), unnumbered page,
    • These are worthy aspects of the hunt to give some consideration to with the next generation, because market forces want us to get more rapt with ever more sophisticated gear and an algorithmic conquering of animal instinct.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * rapture

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To transport or ravish.
    • (Drayton)
  • (obsolete) To carry away by force.
    • (Daniel)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An ecstasy; a trance.
    • (Bishop Morton)
  • (obsolete) rapidity
    • (Sir Thomas Browne)

    Anagrams

    * part, prat, tarp, trap ----