Lexic.us

Definition of Rapture

1. Noun. A state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion. "Listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"

Definition of Rapture

1. n. A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence.

2. v. t. To transport with excitement; to enrapture.

Definition of Rapture

1. Proper noun. (Christianity) a prophesied sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation or simultaneous with the second coming of Jesus Christ ¹

2. Noun. Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement. ¹

3. Noun. In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.") ¹

4. Noun. (obsolete) The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman. ¹

5. Noun. (obsolete) Rape; ravishment; sexual violation. ¹

6. Noun. (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. ¹

7. Verb. (dated intransitive) to experience great happiness or excitement ¹

8. Verb. (dated transitive) to cause to experience great happiness or excitement ¹

9. Verb. (rare) to take part in the Rapture ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rapture

1. to fill with great joy [v -TURED, -TURING, -TURES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rapture

Literary usage of Rapture

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Seasons by James Thomson (1827)
"... And, sighing to the lonely taper, pours His idly-tortured heart into the page, Meant for the moving messenger of love ; Where rapture hurns on rapture, ..."

2. The Vicar of Wakefield: Der Landprediger Von Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (1857)
"There is something so pathetic in the description, that I have read it a hundred times with new rapture." — "In my opinion," cried my son, ..."

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