raptureless
tʃər noun
1.
ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy.
2.
Often, raptures. an utterance or expression of ecstatic delight.
3.
the carrying of a person to another place or sphere of existence.
4.
the Rapture, Theology. the experience, anticipated by some fundamentalist Christians, of meeting Christ midway in the air upon his return to earth.
5.
Archaic. the act of carrying off.
verb (used with object)
6.
to enrapture.
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| —n | |
| 1. | the state of mind resulting from feelings of high emotion; joyous ecstasy |
| 2. | (often plural) an expression of ecstatic joy |
| 3. | the act of transporting a person from one sphere of existence to another, esp from earth to heaven |
| —vb | |
| 4. | archaic, literary or (tr) to entrance; enrapture |
| [C17: from Medieval Latin raptūra, from Latin raptus | |
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