a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
<noun.state> listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture
a state of elated bliss
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Rapture \Rap"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raptured} (-t[-u]rd; 135); p. pr. & vb. n. {Rapturing}.] To transport with excitement; to enrapture. [Poetic] --Thomson.
Rapture \Rap"ture\ (r[a^]p"t[-u]r; 135), n. [L. rapere, raptum, to carry off by force. See {Rapid}.] 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.
Our own fin-de-siecle provokes more modest rapture.
Whisenant said Tuesday he still believed the "rapture" was imminent and revised the moment to 10:55 a.m. EDT today.
With sensitive accompaniments from the Finnish pianist Ilmo Ranta, she caught the distinctive mood of each, from the mystery of Pushkin's 'Oh, never sing to me again' to the impassioned 'What wealth of rapture'.
Behind lay a wall of large slanted mirrors, reflecting the stations in Zivny's relationship with Mila - the first rapture of eyes meeting, the exchange of roses after one of Zivny's concerts.