Definitions from Wiktionary (Rapture)

▸ 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 and deceased 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.
▸ noun:  A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
▸ verb:  (dated, transitive) To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
▸ verb:  (dated, intransitive) To experience great happiness or excitement.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
▸ verb:  (rare, intransitive) To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
▸ verb:  (uncommon) To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.
▸ noun:  (Christianity) a prophesied sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation or simultaneous with the second coming of Jesus Christ

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