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Meaning:

Noun:

  • Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement
  • In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.")

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Proper noun:

  • the sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation and the return of Jesus Christ

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Verb:

  • intransitive to be experiencing rapture
  • transitive to cause others to experience rapture
  • rare to take part in the Rapture

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