Rapture
- Proper noun. (Christianity) a prophesied sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation or simultaneous with the second coming of Jesus Christ.
- Noun. Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
- Noun. In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.").
- Noun. (obsolete) The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
- Noun. (obsolete) Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
- Noun. (obsolete) 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.
- Verb. (dated, intransitive) to experience great happiness or excitement.
- Verb. (dated, transitive) to cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
- Verb. (rare) to take part in the Rapture.
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