Definition of Rapture

1. Noun. A state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion. "Listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"

Exact synonyms: Ecstasy, Exaltation, Raptus, Transport
Generic synonyms: Emotional State, Spirit
Derivative terms: Ecstatic, Exalt, Exalt, Rapturous, Transport

2. Noun. A state of elated bliss.
Exact synonyms: Ecstasy
Generic synonyms: Bliss, Blissfulness, Cloud Nine, Seventh Heaven, Walking On Air
Derivative terms: Ecstatic, Rapturous

Definition of Rapture

1. n. A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence.

2. v. t. To transport with excitement; to enrapture.

Definition of Rapture

1. Proper noun. (Christianity) a prophesied sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation or simultaneous with the second coming of Jesus Christ ¹

2. Noun. Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement. ¹

3. Noun. In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.") ¹

4. Noun. (obsolete) The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman. ¹

5. Noun. (obsolete) Rape; ravishment; sexual violation. ¹

6. Noun. (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. ¹

7. Verb. (dated intransitive) to experience great happiness or excitement ¹

8. Verb. (dated transitive) to cause to experience great happiness or excitement ¹

9. Verb. (rare) to take part in the Rapture ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rapture

1. to fill with great joy [v -TURED, -TURING, -TURES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rapture

rapscallion
rapscallionly
rapscallions
rapt
raptly
raptness
raptnesses
raptor
raptores
raptorial
raptorial bird
raptorious
raptorlike
raptors
raptour
rapture of the deep
raptured
raptures
rapturing
rapturist
rapturists
rapturize
rapturized
rapturizes
rapturizing
rapturous
rapturously
rapturousness
rapturousnesses

Literary usage of Rapture

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Seasons by James Thomson (1827)
"... And, sighing to the lonely taper, pours His idly-tortured heart into the page, Meant for the moving messenger of love ; Where rapture hurns on rapture, ..."

2. The Vicar of Wakefield: Der Landprediger Von Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (1857)
"There is something so pathetic in the description, that I have read it a hundred times with new rapture." — "In my opinion," cried my son, ..."

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