Other forms: raptures
Rapture is overwhelming joy that carries you away. In raptures, a moment of rapture, listen with rapture.
It implies being taken out of yourself, which is exactly what the Latin says: rapture and rape come from the same verb meaning to seize. In some Christian belief the Rapture is the moment believers are taken up, which is a modern doctrine.
1nounraptureOverwhelming joy that carries you away.
“The audience listened in rapture as the young violinist played.”
rapture is a joy.
Latin raptura comes from rapere, to seize or carry off.
Latin
raptūra
Middle French
rapture
English, today
rapture
Built from
Middle French rapture, from Latin raptūra, future active participle of rapiō (“snatch, carry off”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA