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   Rap·ture

   /ˈrap(t)SHər/

   

   noun

   • 1. a feeling of intense pleasure or joy: "Leonora listened with rapture"
   • ▪ expressions of intense pleasure or enthusiasm about something: "the tabloids went into raptures about her"
   • 2. (according to some millenarian teaching) the transporting of believers to heaven at the Second Coming of Christ: North American "thousands of Christians gathered outside Rochester and other cities, awaiting the Rapture"

   verb

   • 1. (according to some millenarian teaching) transport (a believer) from earth to heaven at the Second Coming of Christ: North American "people will be raptured out of automobiles as they are driving along"

   Word Origin late 16th century (in the sense ‘seizing and carrying off’): from obsolete French, or from medieval Latin raptura ‘seizing’, partly influenced by rapt.

   Scrabble Points: 9

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