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rapture |ˈrap ch ər|
noun
1 a feeling of intense pleasure or joy : Leonora listened with rapture.
• ( raptures) expressions of intense pleasure or enthusiasm about something : the tabloids went into raptures about her.
2 ( the Rapture) (according to some millenarian teaching) the transporting of believers to heaven at the second coming of Christ.
verb [ trans. ] (usu. be raptured)
(according to some millenarian teaching) transport (a believer) from earth to heaven at the second coming of Christ.
