ravissement — meaning in English

English meaning

• rapture noun A feeling of intense joy or delight, often so strong it feels overwhelming.

Senses

ravissement is used for these senses in English:

• Rapture (Christianity) In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, a prophesied sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation or simultaneous with the second coming of Jesus Christ.
• rapture Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.

rapture — full definition

1. noun A feeling of intense joy or delight, often so strong it feels overwhelming.
2. noun In some Christian belief, an event in which believers are taken up to heaven.

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