Definitions
a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
Word origin
Borrowed from Middle French rapture, from Latin raptūra, future active participle of rapiō (“snatch, carry off”).
Used in a sentence
“They went into raptures about the meal they'd had.”
“Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture[…]”
“That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash / With headlong rapture.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Ecstasy”7 letters
02“Overwhelming joy”7 letters
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