rapture
ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy.
Often raptures. an utterance or expression of ecstatic delight.
the carrying of a person to another place or sphere of existence.
the Rapture, Theology. the experience, anticipated by some fundamentalist Christians, of meeting Christ midway in the air upon his return to earth.
Archaic. the act of carrying off.
Origin of rapture
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Other words from rapture
- rap·ture·less, adjective
Words that may be confused with rapture
- rapture , rupture
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How to use rapture in a sentence
By the time the four-and-a-half-minute program was over, Brown was skating at a sprint and the arena was in raptures.
Quads Are Nonnegotiable In Men’s Figure Skating. But Fans Of Jason Brown Don’t Care. | Dvora Meyers | February 7, 2022 | FiveThirtyEightIt’s hard to go online these days without seeing someone yelling about the metaverse, whether in rapture or derision.
It’s also a beginning, an open door to rapture, to finding your place in the world—and, sometimes, to creating new work that builds on the old.
Three New Music Documentaries Celebrate the Cosmic Connection Between Artist and Audience | Stephanie Zacharek | July 2, 2021 | TimeMcDonald’s commercials were among our earliest images of love, humanity, sexuality, and even rapture.
The McDonald’s Commercials That Live in Our Minds, Rent Free | MM Carrigan | December 18, 2020 | EaterHowever, a new set of neuroscience research findings suggests that losing track of time is also intimately bound up with creativity, beauty, and rapture.
The Neurology of Flow States - Issue 91: The Amazing Brain | Heather Berlin | October 14, 2020 | Nautilus
A second coming of rapture-minded evangelicalism is always one catastrophe, book, revival, or Nicolas Cage movie away.
The Rapture: The Theological Idea That Inspired ‘The Leftovers’ | Matthew Paul Turner | July 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe book was optioned to HBO in 2011, around the time evangelist Harold Camping claimed The rapture would occur—on May 21, 2011.
From ‘Lost’ to The Rapture: Creators Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta on HBO’s ‘The Leftovers’ | Marlow Stern | June 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe can feel his sad cadences and the rapture of language in the Gettysburg Address.
There is a phrase for the foreigners' rapture: mal d'afrique.
Susan Minot on Africa, Joseph Kony, and the Limits of Writing About Love | Lea Carpenter | February 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMost recently, Harold Camping went bust predicting that the rapture would take place on May 21, 2011.
Sorry, Evangelicals, Syria Will Not Spur the Second Coming | Candida Moss | September 5, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTSince that memorable night of mingled joy and despair, I thought not that such rapture awaited me again on earth.
However, all seemed to do very well, and no one ever came into her room without some degree of rapture about Mr. Ernescliffe.
The Daisy Chain | Charlotte YongeHer face wore an expression of mystic rapture like that characterizing the features of some Chinese Buddhas.
Dope | Sax RohmerI longed to hear her and to see her always; I would have died in rapture at her side, but I was never fain to wed her.
Marguerite | Anatole FranceIt was the first time she had ever given him more than her hand to kiss, and the rapture repaid him for all.
British Dictionary definitions for rapture
/ (ˈræptʃə) /
the state of mind resulting from feelings of high emotion; joyous ecstasy
(often plural) an expression of ecstatic joy
the act of transporting a person from one sphere of existence to another, esp from earth to heaven
(tr) archaic, or literary to entrance; enrapture
Origin of rapture
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