Rapture

[rap·ture]

Rapture is a feeling of emotional ecstasy so magical it's almost as if you've been transported to some other world.

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A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence.

Noun
a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens

Noun
a state of elated bliss


n.
A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence.

n.
The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy.

n.
A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.

v. t.
To transport with excitement; to enrapture.


Rapture

Rap"ture , n. [L. rapere, raptum, to carry off by force. See Rapid.] 1. A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence. [Obs.]
That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash With headlong rapture.
2. The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy.
Music, when thus applied, raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.
You grow correct that once with rapture writ.
3. A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium. [Obs.] Shak. Syn. -- Bliss; ecstasy; transport; delight; exultation.

Rapture

Rap"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raptured ; p. pr. & vb. n. Rapturing.] To transport with excitement; to enrapture. [Poetic] Thomson.

A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence.

To transport with excitement; to enrapture.

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Usage Examples

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

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Other Usage Examples

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

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