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rapture
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French rapture, from Latin rapt?ra, future active participle of rapi? (“snatch, carry off”)
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??æpt??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??apt??/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /???pt??/
- Rhymes: -æpt??(?)
Noun
rapture (countable and uncountable, plural raptures)
- Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
- 2014, Paul Doyle, "Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian, 18 October 2014:
- Sunderland’s right-back, Santiago Vergini, inadvertently gave Southampton the lead by lashing the ball into his own net in the 12th minute, and that signalled the start of a barmy encounter that had home fans in raptures and Sunderland in tatters.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VII
- My heart filled with rapture then, and it fills now as it has each of the countless times I have recalled those dear words, as it shall fill always until death has claimed me. I may never see her again; she may not know how I love her--she may question, she may doubt; but always true and steady, and warm with the fires of love my heart beats for the girl who said that night: "I love you beyond all conception."
- 2014, Paul Doyle, "Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian, 18 October 2014:
- In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.")
- (obsolete) The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
- (obsolete) Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
- (obsolete) The act of carrying, conveying, transporting or sweeping along by force of movement; the force of such movement; the fact of being carried along by such movement.
- 1888 James Russell Lowell, Agassiz 6.1.21:
- With the rapture of great winds to blow / About earth's shaken coignes.
- 1888 James Russell Lowell, Agassiz 6.1.21:
- A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
Related terms
- rapt
Translations
References
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “rapture”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
Verb
rapture (third-person singular simple present raptures, present participle rapturing, simple past and past participle raptured)
- (dated, transitive) To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
- 2012, The Books They Gave Me: True Stories of Life, Love, and Lit, page 138:
- She raptured me in summer by giving me Fitzgerald's flawed and gorgeous masterpiece, the book that held his tortured heart.
- 2012, The Books They Gave Me: True Stories of Life, Love, and Lit, page 138:
- (dated, intransitive) To experience great happiness or excitement.
- (transitive) To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
- 2001, Allan Appel, Club Revelation: A Novel, page 320:
- "If she's raptured," Ellen said to them on the fifth night after Marylee's disappearance, as they sat on the roof of the building on their old beanbags and rusting garden furniture hauled up from the Museum, "if that's what happened to her, then […] "
- 2007, Leon L. Combs, A Search For Reality page 46
- These fiction books told the story of some church people who were raptured but focused on the people who were not raptured.
- 2010, Gerald Mizejewski, Jerimiah Asher, Charting the Supernatural Judgements of Planet Earth (page 233)
- The third person raptured by God into heaven was Elijah […]
- 2011, Lexi George, Demon Hunting in Dixie ?ISBN
- “Praise the Lord, he's been raptured.” Good grief. “I don't think so, Mrs. Farris. 'Course, I'm Episcopalian, and I'm pretty sure we don't get raptured. But, Baptists get raptured, don't they?”
- 2001, Allan Appel, Club Revelation: A Novel, page 320:
- (rare, intransitive) To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
- (uncommon) To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.
- 1885, Edward Everett Hale, G.T.T.; or, The Wonderful Adventures of a Pullman, page 158:
- And then the flowers! May-day indeed. Hester had been in Switzerland at the end of June, years on years before, and often had she raptured to Effie about the day's ride, in which they collected a hundred varieties of flowers, most of them new to them.
- 2003, Jessica Peers, Asparagus Dreams, page 75:
- Pulling her leggings down over unshaven legs, she raptured "I'm dry!" to her audience.
- 2003, Beverly Adam, Irish Magic, page 121:
- They're called angora with wonderfully long, soft fleece,” she raptured on about her first venture.
- 1885, Edward Everett Hale, G.T.T.; or, The Wonderful Adventures of a Pullman, page 158:
Anagrams
- parture
Latin
Participle
rapt?re
- vocative masculine singular of rapt?rus
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hilarity
English
Etymology
From Latin hilaritas, "cheerfulness", from adjective hilaris, "cheerful", ultimately from Greek, + noun of state suffix -tas.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h??læ??.ti/
Noun
hilarity (countable and uncountable, plural hilarities)
- (uncountable) A great amount of amusement, usually accompanied by laughter.
- (countable) Something that induces laughter.
- 1999, Vincent Canby, Janet Maslin and Peter M. Nichols, The New York times guide to the best 1000 movies ever made,
- Think it not curious if we don't seem to be as sidesplittingly impressed with the hilarities in this picture as its promotion might lead you to expect. Hilarity is in it—hilarity at its best—as would be almost mandatory in any film with Miss Holliday.
- 2005, Library journal, Volume 130, Issues 8-13, Page 122,
- Many other Latin imports have become staples of our diet, like the burrito, which in Spanish means "little donkey." What other food-related hilarities are we missing out on?
- 1999, Vincent Canby, Janet Maslin and Peter M. Nichols, The New York times guide to the best 1000 movies ever made,
Synonyms
- cheerfulness
- buoyancy
- delight
- gaiety
- glee
- jauntiness
- merriment
- mirth
Related terms
- hilarious
Translations
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