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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rapture/ˈraptʃə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 a feeling of intense pleasure or joy.
- 2 (raptures) the expression of intense pleasure or enthusiasm.
- 3 (the Rapture) N. Amer. (according to some millenarian teaching) the transporting of believers to heaven at the second coming of Christ.
– phrases
rapture of the deep informal nitrogen narcosis.
rapture of the deep informal nitrogen narcosis.
– origin C16 (in the sense ‘seizing and carrying off’): from obs. Fr., or from med. L. raptura ‘seizing’, partly influenced by rapt.
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