rapture

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Middle French rapture, from Latin raptūra, future active participle of rapiō (“snatch, carry off”). === Pronunciation === (non-rhotic) (Received Pronunciation, Australian) IPA(key): /ˈɹæpt͡ʃəː/, [ˈɹʷæpt͡ʃəː] (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈɹɛptʃɘː/, [ˈɹʷɛ̞pt͡ʃɘː] (rhotic) (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹæpt͡ʃɚ/, [ˈɹʷæpt͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈɹʷæpt͡ʃɹ̩] Rhymes: -æptʃə(ɹ) Hyphenation: rap‧ture === Noun === rapture (countable and uncountable, plural raptures) Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement. (Christianity with the) Alternative letter-case form of Rapture. (obsolete) The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman. (obsolete) Rape; ravishment; sexual violation. (obsolete) 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. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== References ==== John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “rapture”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN. === Verb === rapture (third-person singular simple present raptures, present participle rapturing, simple past and past participle raptured) (dated, transitive) To cause to experience great happiness or excitement. (dated, intransitive) To experience great happiness or excitement. (transitive) To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture. (rare, intransitive) To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture. (uncommon) To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously. === Anagrams === parture == Latin == === Participle === raptūre vocative masculine singular of raptūrus