rapture

  • 71rapture — I. n. 1. Transport, ecstasy, ravishment, beatitude, beatification, bliss, great happiness, heavenly joy. 2. Delight, exultation, enthusiasm. II. v. n. Ravish, transport, enrapture …

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  • 72rapture — n exaltation, elation, exhilaration, thrill, Sl. rush, excitement, excitation; ecstatic joy or delight, delectation, enjoyment, fun, pleasure, ravishment; enchantment, bliss, euphoria, transport, seventh heaven, cloud nine; elysium, paradise,… …

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  • 73rapture — rap·ture …

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  • 74rapture —  Восхищение …

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  • 75rapture — [ˈræptʃə] noun [U] literary a feeling of great happiness or excitement …

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  • 76rapture — rap•ture [[t]ˈræp tʃər[/t]] n. v. tured, tur•ing. n. 1) ecstatic joy or delight 2) Often, raptures. an utterance or expression of ecstatic delight 3) the feeling, esp. in religious ecstasy, of being transported to another place or sphere of… …

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  • 77rapture — /ˈræptʃə / (say rapchuh) noun 1. ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy. 2. (often plural) an utterance or expression of ecstatic delight. 3. Obsolete the carrying of a person to another place or sphere of existence, especially from earth to… …

  • 78Rapture — /ˈræptʃə/ (say rapchuh) noun the, (in US fundamentalist doctrine) a future event when earthly existence ends and when the saved ascend from the earth to meet Jesus Christ …

  • 79rapture —    This word (from the Latin rapere, meaning to seize or to be caught up ) refers to the belief, based on an interpretation of 1Thessalonians 4:15 17, that at the Parousia, the Church will be caught up into union with Christ …

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  • 80rapture of the deep — Date: 1953 nitrogen narcosis …

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