Rapture
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- Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
- In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.")
- The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
- Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
- 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.
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Etymology
Latin raptūra, future active participle of rapiō (“snatch, carry off”)
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See also
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