RAPTURE DEFINITIONS - 12 definitions found
rapture n 1: a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens [syn: ecstasy, rapture, transport, exaltation, raptus] 2: a state of elated bliss [syn: ecstasy, rapture] rapture parture Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) rapture I. noun Etymology: Latin raptus Date: 1594 1. an expression or manifestation of ecstasy or passion 2. a. a state or experience of being carried away by overwhelming emotion b. a mystical experience in which the spirit is exalted to a knowledge of divine things 3. often capitalized the final assumption of Christians into heaven during the end-time according to Christian theology Synonyms: see ecstasy • rapturous adjective • rapturously adverb • rapturousness noun II. transitive verb (raptured; rapturing) Date: 1637 enrapture Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary rapture Rapture is a feeling of extreme happiness or pleasure. (LITERARY) The film was shown to gasps of rapture at the Democratic Convention... = delight N-UNCOUNT English Explanatory Dictionary rapture ˈræptʃə n. 1 a ecstatic delight, mental transport. b (in pl.) great pleasure or enthusiasm or the expression of it. 2 archaic the act of transporting a person from one place to another. øgo into (or be in) raptures be enthusiastic; talk enthusiastically. øørapturous adj. rapturously adv. rapturousness n. [obs. F rapture or med.L raptura (as RAPT)] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Rapture \Rap"ture\ (r[a^]p"t[-u]r; 135), n. [L. rapere, raptum, to carry off by force. See Rapid.] 1. A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence. [Obs.] That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash With headlong rapture. --Chapman. 2. The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy. Music, when thus applied, raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture. --Addison. You grow correct that once with rapture writ. --Pope. 3. A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium. [Obs.] --Shak. Syn: Bliss; ecstasy; transport; delight; exultation. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Rapture \Rap"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raptured (-t[-u]rd; 135); p. pr. & vb. n. Rapturing.] To transport with excitement; to enrapture. [Poetic] --Thomson. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms rapture I. n. 1. Transport, ecstasy, ravishment, beatitude, beatification, bliss, great happiness, heavenly joy. 2. Delight, exultation, enthusiasm. II. v. n. Ravish, transport, enrapture. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) rapture ˈræptʃə n. ecstasy, delight, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, pleasure, exaltation, elation, thrill, enchantment, euphoria, beatitude, transport, enchantment: Nothing could compare with the rapture he felt at seeing his daughter win the Nobel prize. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 79 Moby Thesaurus words for "rapture": abandon, affection, affectionateness, amativeness, amorousness, beatification, beatitude, bewitchment, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, cheer, cheerfulness, cloud nine, craze, delectation, delight, delirium, demonstrativeness, dharana, dhyana, ecstasis, ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, enchantment, euphoria, exaltation, exhilaration, exuberance, felicity, fire and fury, frenzy, furor, furore, fury, gaiety, gladness, glee, goatishness, happiness, heaven, high spirits, horniness, hypnosis, hysteria, intoxication, joy, joyance, joyfulness, joyousness, lovelornness, lovesickness, madness, orgasm, orgy, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, paradise, passion, pleasure, rage, ravishment, rhapsody, romanticism, samadhi, sentimentality, seventh, seventh heaven, sexiness, sunshine, susceptibility, tearing passion, thrill, towering rage, trance, transport, unalloyed happiness, yoga trance |
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