rapture

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , future active participle of.

Noun

 * 1) Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
 * 2) In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living and deceased believers. (Usually "the 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)  Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3) A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
 * 1) A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
 * 1) A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.

Derived terms

 * rapture of the deep

Translations

 * Arabic:, نَشْوَة
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Danish: henrykkelse
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:, Taumel, , , , Hingerissenheit, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Middle English: traunce
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: henrykkelse
 * Occitan: rabiment
 * Ottoman Turkish: وجدان
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish: ,


 * Catalan:, arravatament
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:, wegvoering
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:, , arreutada, arreuto, , , ,
 * German:
 * Greek: αναρπαγή
 * Hebrew:, סוף העידן
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 携挙
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: răpirea
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: arrebatamiento
 * Swedish: uppryckande


 * German: Fieberkrampf, Krampfanfall

Verb

 * 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.
 * 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)  To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
 * 2)  To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.
 * 1)  To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
 * 2)  To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.
 * 1)  To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.