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rapture
rap·ture / ˈrapchər/ • n. 1. a feeling of intense pleasure or joy: Leonora listened with rapture. ∎ (raptures) expressions of intense pleasure or enthusiasm about something: the tabloids went into raptures about her. 2. (the Rapture) (according to some millenarian teaching) the transporting of believers to heaven at the second coming of Christ. • v. [tr.] (usu. be raptured) (according to some millenarian teaching) transport (a believer) from earth to heaven at the second coming of Christ. |
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"rapture." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "rapture." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-rapture.html "rapture." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-rapture.html |
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Rapture
Rapture (Lat., raptus, ‘seized’). The action in which believers will be ‘caught up’ (1 Thessalonians 4. 17; Vulgate, rapiemur) to meet Christ in the air at his second coming (parousia). In mystical Christianity, rapture is the carrying away of the believer by the overwhelming power of God, a ‘flight of the spirit’.
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JOHN BOWKER. "Rapture." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN BOWKER. "Rapture." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-Rapture.html JOHN BOWKER. "Rapture." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-Rapture.html |
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rapture
rapture •catcher, dacha, focaccia, patcher, scratcher, snatcher, stature, thatcher
•facture, fracture, manufacture
•capture, enrapture, rapture
•flycatcher • oystercatcher
•archer, departure, kwacha, marcher, starcher, viscacha
•pasture
•etcher, fetcher, fletcher, lecher, sketcher, stretcher
•conjecture, lecture
•sepulture
•denture, misadventure, peradventure
•divesture, gesture, vesture
•texture • architecture • nature
•magistrature
•bleacher, creature, feature, headteacher, Katowice, Nietzsche, preacher, screecher, teacher
•schoolteacher
•ditcher, hitcher, pitcher, stitcher, twitcher
•Chibcha
•picture, stricture
•filcher • simcha
•cincture, tincture
•scripture
•admixture, commixture, fixture, intermixture, mixture
•expenditure • forfeiture
•discomfiture • garniture
•primogeniture, progeniture
•miniature • furniture • temperature
•portraiture • literature
•divestiture, vestiture
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"rapture." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "rapture." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-rapture.html "rapture." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-rapture.html |
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