rapture Hear it!

rapture Definition

rap·ture (rap′c̸hər)

noun

  1. the state of being carried away with joy, love, etc.; ecstasy
  2. an expression of great joy, pleasure, etc.
  3. a carrying away or being carried away in body or spirit: now rare except in theological usage

Etymology: ML raptura: see rapt & -ure

transitive verb -·tured, -·tur·ing

Now Rare to enrapture; fill with ecstasy

rapture Related Forms
rap′·tur·ous adjective rap′·tur·ously adverb
rapture Idioms

the rapture

in some Christian theologies, the bodily ascent into heaven just before Armageddon of those who are saved (see save, )

rapture Synonyms

rapture

n.

  1. Delight

    happiness, pleasure, joy, satisfaction, enjoyment, felicity, exhilaration, contentment, gladness, gratification, enchantment, bewitchment, elation, euphoria, ecstasy, transport, rhapsody, jubilation, buoyancy, altitudes*, seventh heaven*, cloud nine*; see also happiness 2.

    Antonyms pain*, grief*, affliction. *

  2. An ecstatic state

    ecstasy, bliss, transport, beatitude, exaltation, enchantment, passion, glory, elysium, paradise, inspiration, enthusiasm, divine communion, mystical trance, at-oneness; see also sense 1.

rapture now generally suggests the mental exaltation experienced when one's entire attention is captured by something that evokes great joy or pleasure; ecstasy implies extreme emotional exaltation, now usually intense delight, that overpowers the senses and lifts one into a trancelike state; bliss implies a state of great happiness and contentment, often suggesting heavenly joy; transport applies to any powerful emotion by which one is carried away

rapture Usage Examples

Preposition: about

  • rescue: Upon reaching land, the Pope went into raptures about the rescue and said " I give you my blessing for your brave actions.

Converse of object

  • miss: If I miss the Rapture, I'm in good shape.
  • call: We have two passages that give, by all counts, an explicit description of what has been called the rapture.
  • have: Here we have the rapture - rapture " caught up " means to be seized away.
  • expect: But we cannot always expect raptures and high elevations; it is some fruit if it maketh you fall to prayer and holy complaints.

Converse of subject

  • accompany: This stage of jhånacitta is more refined than the third stage of jhånacitta which is still accompanied by rapture.

Adjective modifier

  • careless: He gives himself up freely to his impressions, and there is a fine, careless rapture in his laughter.
  • secret: Dec 2005 at 06:46 Title: Secret Rapture vs. Every Eye Shall See Him Post by Andrew Hemming on 10.
  • such: Do you not know that, in moments of such rapture, lovers see and feel nothing but love?
  • first: Nor is there hint of resurrection accompanying this first rapture.
  • spiritual: To work only for self, to cloister oneself in the seeking of spiritual rapture, is to run from this responsibility.
  • high: Among the chivalrous lovers of Provence, this high rapture received the name of " Joy.

Modifies a noun

  • TV: I first heard this song on rapture TVs R Muzik run but its from ages ago about 2000/2001.
  • index: In this past election several million good and decent citizens went to the polls believing in the rapture index.

Noun used with modifier

  • collection: Last year's winner of the T S Eliot Prize was Carol Ann Duffy, for her collection Rapture ( 2005 ).

Possessives

  • theology: Wright heavily criticized traditional ' rapture ' theology we sees the coming of Christ as an escape from history and creation.

Preposition: of

  • church: Then we await the resurrection at the rapture of the church.
  • love: The embrace of the woman meant rolling on the ground in the rapture of divine love.
  • delight: Their unique blend of voices in unaccompanied singing was received with raptures of delight by the folk fans and music critics alike.
rapture Quotes

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture!

—Browning, Robert

'Is there no more?' She cries.'All this to love, and rapture's due, Must we not paya debt to pleasure too?'

—Rochester,JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man less, but nature more.

—Rochdale

Even so for me a vision sanctified The sway of death; long ere my eyes had seen Thy countenanceöthe still rapture of thy mienö When thou, dear Sister! wert become death's bride: No trace of pain or languor could abide That changeöage on thy brow was smoothedöthy cold Wan cheek at once was privileged to unfold A loveliness to living youth denied. Oh! if within me hope should e'er decline, The lamp of faith, lost Friend! too faintly burn; The may that heaven-revealing smile of thine, The bright assurance, visibly return: And let my spirit in that power divine Rejoice, as, through that power, it ceased to mourn.

—Wordsworth,William