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Definition rapture

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French rapture, from Latin rapt?ra, future active participle of rapi? (�snatch, carry off�)

Noun

rapture (countable and uncountable, plural raptures)

1. Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
2. In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.")
3. (obsolete) The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
4. (obsolete) Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
5. (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.
6. A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.

Verb

rapture (third-person singular simple present raptures, present participle rapturing, simple past and past participle raptured)

1. (dated, transitive) To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
2. (dated, intransitive) To experience great happiness or excitement.
3. (transitive) To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
4. (rare, intransitive) To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
5. (uncommon) To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.

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