raptured

[ rap-cherd ]

adjective

, Theology.

1. (especially of saints) experiencing religious ecstasy as a result of one's faith.

Other Words From

• un·raptured adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of raptured¹

First recorded in 1675–85; rapture + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Before the group of mother and son she fell into a raptured attitude.

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Still, while yet in love with life and raptured with the world, he passed to silence and pathetic dust.

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She eagerly longed to see a place in which she fancied charms short only of those which a raptured saint imagines in heaven.

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The soul is raptured to conceive A truth which being must believe; The God eternal died.

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Believe me, Sire, she gave her beauty to my raptured arms with no persuasions but such as became a soldier and a king.

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