Rapture

/ˈɹɛptʃɘ/

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.

verb

  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.

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