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Rapture
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Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence. [Obs.] That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash With headlong rapture. Chapman.
2. The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy. Music, when thus applied, raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture. Addison. You grow correct that once with rapture writ. Pope.
3. A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium. [Obs.] Shak.
Synonyms: Bliss; ecstasy; transport; delight; exultation.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To transport with excitement; to enrapture. [Poetic] Thomson.