Rapture Definition
răpchər
raptured, raptures, rapturing
noun
raptures
The state of being carried away with joy, love, etc.; ecstasy.
Webster's New World
An expression of great joy, pleasure, etc.
Webster's New World
The transporting of a person from one place to another, especially to heaven, by supernatural means.
American Heritage
A carrying away or being carried away in body or spirit.
Webster's New World
An event in the eschatology of certain Christian groups in which believers in Christ will be taken up to heaven either prior to or at the Second Coming.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
pronoun
(Christianity) A prophesied sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation or simultaneous with the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Wiktionary
verb
raptured, raptures, rapturing
To enrapture; fill with ecstasy.
Webster's New World
(dated) To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
Wiktionary
(dated, intransitive) To experience great happiness or excitement.
Wiktionary
(rare, intransitive) To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
- ecstasiate
idiom
the rapture
- in some Christian theologies, the bodily ascent into heaven just before Armageddon of those who are saved (see save
Webster's New World
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Rapture
- the rapture
Origin of Rapture
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Obsolete French abduction, carrying off from rapt carried away from Old French rat from Latin raptus rapt
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Latin raptÅ«ra, future active participle of rapiō (“snatch, carry off")
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