rapture
/ˈræptʃər/
verb
- To fill someone with intense joy or delight.
- The beautiful music raptured the entire audience.
- Her performance raptured the critics and fans alike.
- The view from the mountaintop raptured the hikers.
noun
- A feeling of extreme happiness, joy, or delight.
- She was filled with rapture when she saw the sunset over the ocean.
- The audience listened to the symphony in rapture.
- His face showed pure rapture as he held his newborn baby.
- In some Christian beliefs, the event when believers are taken up to heaven at the end of the world.
- They debated the timing of the rapture in their Bible study group.
- Many religious texts describe the rapture as a sudden event.
- The novel tells a story about people left behind after the rapture.