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raptured
We have found lemma(root) word of raptured : rapture.
Definitions
[ˈraptʃə], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a feeling of intense pleasure or joy
(e.g: Leonora listened with rapture)
- (according to some millenarian teaching) the transporting of believers to heaven at the Second Coming of Christ
(e.g: thousands of Christians gathered outside Rochester and other cities, awaiting the Rapture)
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Origin
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late 16th century (in the sense ‘seizing and carrying off’): from obsolete French, or from medieval Latin raptura ‘seizing’, partly influenced by rapt
[ˈraptʃə], (Verb)
Definitions:
- (according to some millenarian teaching) transport (a believer) from earth to heaven at the Second Coming of Christ
(e.g: people will be raptured out of automobiles as they are driving along)
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Origin
:
late 16th century (in the sense ‘seizing and carrying off’): from obsolete French, or from medieval Latin raptura ‘seizing’, partly influenced by rapt
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