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rap·ture

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NOUN:

The state of being transported by a lofty emotion; ecstasy.
An expression of ecstatic feeling. Often used in the plural.
The transporting of a person from one place to another, especially to heaven.

TRANSITIVE VERB:
rap·tured , rap·tur·ing , rap·tures

To enrapture.

ETYMOLOGY:
Obsolete French, abduction, carrying off, from rapt, carried away, from Old French rat, from Latin raptus ; see rapt

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