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RAPTURE
ecstasy, rapture, transport, exaltation, raptus
(noun) a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; “listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture”- Charles Dickens
ecstasy, rapture
(noun) a state of elated bliss
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
rapture (countable and uncountable, plural raptures)
Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.")
(obsolete) The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
(obsolete) Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
(obsolete) The act of carrying, conveying, transporting or sweeping along by force of movement; the force of such movement; the fact of being carried along by such movement.
A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
Verb
rapture (third-person singular simple present raptures, present participle rapturing, simple past and past participle raptured)
(dated, transitive) To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
(dated, intransitive) To experience great happiness or excitement.
(transitive) To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
(rare, intransitive) To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
(uncommon) To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.
Anagrams
• parture
Proper noun
Rapture
(Christianity) a prophesied sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation or simultaneous with the second coming of Jesus Christ
Anagrams
• parture
Source: Wiktionary
Rap"ture, n. Etym: [L. rapere, raptum, to carry off by force. See Rapid.]
1. A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence. [Obs.] That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash With headlong rapture. Chapman.
2. The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy. Music, when thus applied, raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture. Addison. You grow correct that once with rapture writ. Pope.
3. A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium. [Obs.] Shak.
Syn.
– Bliss; ecstasy; transport; delight; exultation.
Rap"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raptured; p. pr. & vb. n. Rapturing.]
Definition: To transport with excitement; to enrapture. [Poetic] Thomson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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