rapture
IPA: rˈæptʃɝ
noun
- Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
- In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living and deceased believers. (Usually "the rapture".)
- (obsolete) The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
- (obsolete) Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
- (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.
- A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
- (Christianity) a prophesied sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation or simultaneous with the second coming of Jesus Christ
verb
- (dated, transitive) To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
- (dated, intransitive) To experience great happiness or excitement.
- (transitive) To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
- (rare, intransitive) To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
- (uncommon) To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.
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Examples of "rapture" in Sentences
- She is in rapture nowadays.
- The storyline is about the rapture.
- That is not the only view of the rapture.
- The man is glad nowadays due to the rapture.
- But that is not the only view of the rapture.