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Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a state of rapture; characterized by rapture or ecstasy; enraptured.
Wiktionary
- v. simple past tense and past participle of rapture.
Etymologies
- Obsolete French, abduction, carrying off, from rapt, carried away, from Old French rat, from Latin raptus; see rapt.
Examples
“So long as AIPAC and the right wing fundies who are praying for an Aramgeddon in the ME to happen so that they can get "raptured" are more powerful that we progressives ...... the current tragectory ain't likely to change.”
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“It gains crucial electoral support from a religious constituency whose grip on reality is so tenuous that they expect to be 'raptured' up to heaven, leaving their clothes as empty as their minds.”
“Many within power circles in the US don't necessarily fear such a scenario, because they believe that a Middle East nuclear Armageddon will be preceded by the Second Coming and their being 'raptured' up to heaven.”
“All three, after all, adhere to an eschatology known as dispensationalism: the belief that the world will end in a cataclysm during which Christians will be "raptured," nonbelievers destroyed, and Christ will return to earth.”
“True believers adhering to holy scriptures, however, will be saved and "raptured" to eternal life and bliss in heaven.”
“The notion comes from conservative Protestant eschatology denoting the final happening when "good Christians" on earth are saved and "raptured" to heaven to be with Jesus in eternal immortality while non-believers are doomed to a more hellish, less "rapturous" fate Hedges characterizes as suffering "unspeakable torments below.”
“But if I attempt to have Posthuman Blues "raptured" into the new version I get a message informing me that I have too many posts and will have to continue waiting.”
“In LaHaye's and Jenkins' books, the non-believers are ultimately condemned to "everlasting punishment" while the evangelicals are "raptured" up to heaven.”
“They're so excited and happy to see the increase in hostilities in the middle east, they're literally whooping for joy, giddily thrilled that they will be "raptured," taken up by the returning Messiah, along with all the other "believers" while the rest of the humans on the planet either suffer nasty deaths or are "left behind" in a kind of purgatory.”
“Really, these people are struggling with the question of whether they should cancel vacation plans or plans to move, because the mideast crisis is getting hot enough so they will be "raptured" and won't need to travel.”
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