rapture

Meanings

1. Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
2. Alternative letter-case form of Rapture.
3. The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
4. Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
5. 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.
6. A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.

1. To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
2. To experience great happiness or excitement.
3. To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
4. To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
5. To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.

1. In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, a prophesied sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation or simultaneous with the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French rapture, from Latin raptūra, future active participle of rapiō (“snatch, carry off”).