rapture

Meanings

Noun

Verb

  • To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
  • To experience great happiness or excitement.
  • To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
  • To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
  • To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.

Origin

  • Borrowed from Middle French rapture, from Latin raptūra, future active participle of rapiō

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