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Meaning
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".)
●
The
act
of
kidnapping
or
abducting
, especially the
forceful
carrying
off of
a woman.
●
Rape;
ravishment
;
sexual
violation.
●
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.
Verb
●
To cause to experience great
happiness
or excitement.
●
To experience great
happiness
or excitement.
●
To take (someone) off the Earth and
bring
(them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
●
To
take part
in the Rapture; to
leave
Earth and
go to
Heaven as part of the Rapture.
●
To state (something,
transitive
) or
talk
(intransitive) rapturously.
Name
●
a
prophesied
sudden
removal
of Christian
believers
from the Earth before the Tribulation or
simultaneous
with the
second coming
of Jesus Christ
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Origin
rapture
English
raptura
Latin
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Etym
Related
Resurrection
Armageddon
Prophecy
Afterlife
Singularity
Prophesy
Joy
Purgatory
Misery
Darkness
Soul
Bliss
Pleasure
Happiness
Love
Glory
Delight
Excitement
Satan
Reincarnation
Deliverance
Wonder
Romance
Beauty
Salvation
Paradise
Lust
Magic
Fantasy
Horror
Moment
Bible
Spirit
Ghost
Melancholy
Sin
Anguish
Heaven
Prayer
Calamity
End Times
Holy Spirit
Beatific Vision
Big Bang
Second Coming
Zombie Apocalypse
Virgin Birth
True Love
Garden Of Eden
Tower Of Babel
Fall Of Man
New World Order
More
Rhymes
Rapture
Capture
Enrapture
Recapture
Uncapture
Piscicapture
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