rapture
pronunciation
How to pronounce rapture in British English:
UK [ˈræptʃə(r)]
How to pronounce rapture in American English:
US [ˈræptʃər]
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- Noun:
- a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
- a state of elated bliss
Word Origin
- rapture
- rapture: [17] Rapture is one of a large family of English words that go back ultimately to Latin rapere ‘seize by force’. Its past participle was raptus (source of English rapt [14]), which formed the basis of the medieval Latin noun raptūra ‘seizure’, hence ‘ecstasy’ – whence English rapture. From the same source come rapacious [17], rape ‘violate sexually’, rapid, rapine [15], ravage, ravenous, ravine, ravish, surreptitious, and usurp.=> rapacious, rape, rapid, ravage, ravenous, ravine, ravish, surreptitious, usurp
- rapture (n.)
- c. 1600, "act of carrying off," from Middle French rapture, from Medieval Latin raptura "seizure, rape, kidnapping," from Latin raptus "a carrying off, abduction, snatching away; rape" (see rapt). Earliest attested use in English is of women and in 17c. it sometimes meant rape (v.), which word is a cognate of this. Sense of "spiritual ecstasy, state of mental transport" first recorded c. 1600 (raptures).
- rapture (v.)
- 1630s, from rapture (n.). Related: Raptured; rapturing.
Example
- 1. Boosting orgasm rapture & quantity is equally valid .
- 2. Yet in this rapture I 'm swept away .
- 3. The heart in drunken rapture reels .
- 4. It is the job of the writer to depict the realities : the foul realities , the realities of rapture .
- 5. The dream had been worth suffering for the sake of this sudden rapture .