rapture
/ˈɹæpt͡ʃəː/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.17 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "They went into raptures about the meal they'd had."
- "Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture[…]"
- "Sunderland’s right-back, Santiago Vergini, inadvertently gave Southampton the lead by lashing the ball into his own net in the 12th minute, and that signalled the start of a barmy encounter that had home fans in raptures and Sunderland in tatters."
- "My heart filled with rapture then, and it fills now as it has each of the countless times I have recalled those dear words, as it shall fill always until death has claimed me. I may never see her again; she may not know how I love her--she may question, she may doubt; but always true and steady, and warm with the fires of love my heart beats for the girl who said that night: "I love you beyond all conception.""
- "In the last week, believers have linked Charlie Kirk’s assassination to the rapture theory: some on TikTok have suggested that Kirk, who in death became a martyr for Christian nationalists and whose memorial service veered into religious revival territory, could be resurrected during the rapture."
- "That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash / With headlong rapture."
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French rapture, from Latin raptūra, future active participle of rapiō (“snatch, carry off”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: raptūra
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹæpt͡ʃəː/
- British English: /ˈɹæpt͡ʃəː/