Synonyms for rapture

Grammar : Noun

Spell : rap-cher

Phonetic Transcription : ˈræp tʃər

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Définition of rapture

Origin : 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).

noun extreme happiness and delight in something

Example sentences :

And the music seized us and swept us away with its rapture and its mystery.
Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark

Fanny uttered a low and suppressed cry of delight and rapture.
Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Mr Pecksniff looked up to the ceiling, and clasped his hands in rapture.
Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens

"Thank you, thank you with all my heart," Marie stammered amidst her rapture.
Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola

Then, with dreamy eyes, he relapsed into a state of rapture.
Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola

May peace be an inmate of his bosom, and rapture a frequent visitor of his soul!
Extract from : « The Letters of Robert Burns » by Robert Burns

They have not been fused in the rapture of some unique mood, not focussed by the intensity of an emotion.
Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore

In this alternation of rapture and despair all her time passes.
Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth

You retain your lofty calm: but inside you are little quivers of rapture.
Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White

And that rapture she could never share; she knew herself; it was not in her.
Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward

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