raptures

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 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
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.

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