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The term “rapport” appears in literature with a striking diversity of meanings, ranging from the intimate to the formal. In novels like Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, it conveys a sense of mutual understanding or affinity between individuals ("I was conscious of rapport between you and myself" [1]), while in other works it is used more technically to describe formal reports or records, as seen in accounts and official documents during eras of political revolution ([2], [3], [4], [5], [6]). In sociological and psychological texts, notably those by Burgess and Park, “rapport” is discussed as a phenomenon of group dynamics, linking states of hypnosis, suggestion, and even the emergence of group consciousness ([7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15]). Meanwhile, French instructional texts employ “rapport” in various metaphorical and definitional senses—from describing proportional relations to conveying connections between concepts ([16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21]). Even poets like Walt Whitman harness the term to evoke transcendent connections that bridge the personal and the cosmic ([22], [23], [24], [25]). This multifaceted application underscores how “rapport” has evolved in literary usage to encapsulate both empirical relationships and the more ineffable bonds of human experience.
  1. I was conscious of rapport between you and myself.
    — from Villette by Charlotte Brontë
  2. ( Rapport de M. Aubriot Choiseul, p. 150-7. )
    — from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
  3. Rapport du Captaine des Canonniers, Rapport du Commandant, &c. Ibid.
    — from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
  4. ( Extrait d'un Rapport de M. Deslons, Choiseul, p. 164-7. )
    — from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
  5. Rapport de la Commission Mixte, 1850.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  6. ( Rapport de Chabroud ( Moniteur, du 31 December, 1789 ). )
    — from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
  7. What is meant by rapport in the group may be illustrated by a somewhat similar phenomenon which occurs in hypnosis.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  8. Moreover, we have need of sympathetic rapport for our motor reactions against pain.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  9. Self-consciousness passes over, in the rapport thus established, into group consciousness.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  10. This is the condition called "isolated rapport."
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  11. What do you understand to be the relation of suggestion and rapport to subordination and superordination?
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  12. But in normal social situations, unlike hypnotism, there may be the effect of suggestion where no rapport exists.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  13. In the family, rapport and consensus represent the most complete co-ordination of its members.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  14. What is the relation of rapport to suggestion?
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  15. Rapport has, for the time being, made the crowd, in a peculiarly intimate way, a social unit.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  16. , marquant le rapport d'une chose à ce qui la contient.
    — from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann
  17. collecte , f. , quête. collection , f. , recueil d'objets qui ont du rapport.
    — from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann
  18. nombre , m. , rapport entre une quantité et une autre quantité prise comme terme de comparaison et qu'on appelle unité.
    — from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann
  19. rapport , m. , récit, compte rendu; conformité, relation.
    — from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann
  20. Tenir -- de , faire un rapport de. compter , calculer; se proposer.
    — from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann
  21. , exprime un rapport de tendance, de situation ou de provenance.
    — from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann
  22. —I only seek to put you in rapport.
    — from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman
  23. Yet there never were audiences that paid a good actor or an interesting play the compliment of more sustain'd attention or quicker rapport.
    — from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman
  24. Certain music from wondrous voices or skilful players—then poetic glints still more—put the soul in rapport with death, or toward it.
    — from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman
  25. From the whole dome shot down points of light, rapport with me, through the clear blue-black.
    — from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman

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