rapture Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

L. rapere, raptum, to carry off by force. See Rapid.

A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence. Obs.
That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash With headlong rapture. Chapman.
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.
A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium. Obs. Shak. Syn. -- Bliss; ecstasy; transport; delight; exultation.

imperfect & past participle Raptured ; present participle & verbal noun Rapturing