— raptureless , adj.
/rap"cheuhr/ , n. , v. raptured, rapturing .
n.
1. ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy.
2. Often, raptures . an utterance or expression of ecstatic delight.
3. the carrying of a person to another place or sphere of existence.
4. the Rapture , Theol. the experience, anticipated by some fundamentalist Christians, of meeting Christ midway in the air upon his return to earth.
5. Archaic. the act of carrying off.
v.t.
6. to enrapture.
[ 1590-1600; RAPT + -URE ]
Syn. 1. bliss, beatitude; transport, exaltation. See ecstasy .
Ant. 1. misery.