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Noun: rapture  rap-chu(r)
  1. A state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
    "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture";
    - ecstasy, transport, exaltation, raptus
     
  2. A state of elated bliss
    - ecstasy
Noun: Rapture  rap-chu(r)
  1. (futurist Christian doctrine) the future event when Christian believers are suddenly removed from the Earth before the second coming of Christ

Derived forms: raptures

Type of: bliss, blissfulness, cloud nine, emotional state, seventh heaven, spirit, walking on air

Encyclopedia: Rapture, Ye Minions!

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