rapture
狂欢,狂欢节,倾覆,启示录
Related Words
Definitions
- 1
- : ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy.
- : Often raptures. an utterance or expression of ecstatic delight.
- : the carrying of a person to another place or sphere of existence.
- : the Rapture, Theology. the experience, anticipated by some fundamentalist Christians, of meeting Christ midway in the air upon his return to earth.
- : Archaic. the act of carrying off.
- 1
rap·tured, rap·tur·ing.
- : to enrapture.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
It’s also a beginning, an open door to rapture, to finding your place in the world—and, sometimes, to creating new work that builds on the old.
McDonald’s commercials were among our earliest images of love, humanity, sexuality, and even rapture.
However, a new set of neuroscience research findings suggests that losing track of time is also intimately bound up with creativity, beauty, and rapture.
A second coming of Rapture-minded evangelicalism is always one catastrophe, book, revival, or Nicolas Cage movie away.
The book was optioned to HBO in 2011, around the time evangelist Harold Camping claimed The Rapture would occur—on May 21, 2011.
We can feel his sad cadences and the rapture of language in the Gettysburg Address.
There is a phrase for the foreigners' rapture: mal d'afrique.
Most recently, Harold Camping went bust predicting that the Rapture would take place on May 21, 2011.
Since that memorable night of mingled joy and despair, I thought not that such rapture awaited me again on earth.
However, all seemed to do very well, and no one ever came into her room without some degree of rapture about Mr. Ernescliffe.
Her face wore an expression of mystic rapture like that characterizing the features of some Chinese Buddhas.