Word Finder - raptures

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Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.

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

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The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.

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Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.

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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.

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A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.

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To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.

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To experience great happiness or excitement.

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To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.

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To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.

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To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.

The delights of love are made to stand for the raptures of union with the divine, the tavern symbolizes an oratory, and intoxication is the bewilderment of sense before the surpassing vision.

The glaciers and the rocks called forth no raptures.

His earliest sermon before the king at Whitehall carried his audience "to heaven, in holy raptures."

Fiery patriots like Hypereides were in raptures.

Their unique blend of voices in unaccompanied singing was received with raptures of delight by the folk fans and music critics alike.

But we cannot always expect raptures and high elevations; it is some fruit if it maketh you fall to prayer and holy complaints.

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

I said so even at the time when everybody was in raptures about him, when he had just returned from abroad, and when, if you remember, he posed as a sort of Marat at one of my soirees.