rapture

noun

/ˈɹæpt͡ʃəː/UK/ˈɹɛptʃɘː//ˈɹæpt͡ʃɚ/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French rapture, from Latin raptūra, future active participle of rapiō (“snatch, carry off”).

derived from raptūra
borrowed from rapture

Definitions

1
Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
- They went into raptures about the meal they'd had.
- Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture[…]
Alternative letter-case form of Rapture.
The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
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1. Rape
  Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
2. 5
  The act of carrying, conveying, transporting or sweeping along by force of movement
  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.
  - That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash / With headlong rapture.
  - With the rapture of great winds to blow / About earth's shaken coignes.
3. 6
  A spasm
  A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
  - Your pratling nurse Into a rapture lets her baby cry
4. 7
  To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
  - She raptured me in summer by giving me Fitzgerald's flawed and gorgeous masterpiece, the book that held his tortured heart.
5. To experience great happiness or excitement.
6. 9
  To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
  - These fiction books told the story of some church people who were raptured but focused on the people who were not raptured.
  - The third person raptured by God into heaven was Elijah […]
7. To take part in the Rapture
  To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
8. 11
  To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.
  - Pulling her leggings down over unshaven legs, she raptured "I'm dry!" to her audience.
  - They're called angora with wonderfully long, soft fleece,” she raptured on about her first venture.
9. In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, a prophesied sudden removal of…
  In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, a prophesied sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation or simultaneous with the second coming of Jesus Christ.

The neighborhood

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Derived

enrapture, raptureless, rapture of the deep, rapturesome, rapturise, rapturist, rapturize, rapturous

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at rapture. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at rapture. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at rapture

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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