Rapture

n.	1.	A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence. 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.
v. t.	1.	To transport with excitement; to enrapture. [imp. & p. p. Raptured (-tũrd; 135); p. pr. & vb. n. Rapturing.]

Noun	1.	rapture - a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens Synonyms: ecstasy, exaltation, raptus, transport
	2.	rapture - a state of elated bliss Synonyms: ecstasy

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