Definitions for rapture

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rapture rap·ture

Spelling: [rap-cher]

IPA: /ˈræp tʃər/

Rapture is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 156 anagrams from letters in rapture (aeprrtu).

Definitions for rapture

noun

1. ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy.
2. Often, raptures. an utterance or expression of ecstatic delight.
3. the carrying of a person to another place or sphere of existence.
4. the Rapture, Theology. the experience, anticipated by some fundamentalist Christians, of meeting Christ midway in the air upon his return to earth.
5. Archaic. the act of carrying off.

verb (used with object)

1. to enrapture.

Origin of rapture

First recorded in 1590-1600; rapt + -ure

Examples for rapture

"Thank you, thank you with all my heart," Marie stammered amidst her rapture.

Mr Pecksniff looked up to the ceiling, and clasped his hands in rapture.

And the music seized us and swept us away with its rapture and its mystery.

There is a phrase for the foreigners' rapture: mal d'afrique.

We can feel his sad cadences and the rapture of language in the Gettysburg Address.

The book was optioned to HBO in 2011, around the time evangelist Harold Camping claimed The rapture would occur—on May 21, 2011.

rapture was self-transcending, which led to quiescence, tranquility, and catharsis.

Fanny uttered a low and suppressed cry of delight and rapture.

Most recently, Harold Camping went bust predicting that the rapture would take place on May 21, 2011.

Then, with dreamy eyes, he relapsed into a state of rapture.