Thesaurus: rapture

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1. n. A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence.
2. n. 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.
3. n. A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
4. v. t. To transport with excitement; to enrapture.
5. n. a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
6. n. a state of elated bliss
7. 1. 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. 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. [Obs.] Shak. Syn. -- Bliss; ecstasy; transport; delight; exultation. To transport with excitement; to enrapture. [Poetic] Thomson.
8. To transport with excitement; to enrapture. [Poetic] Thomson.
9. n:100 n a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion n a state of elated bliss