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Synonyms for rapture

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Synonyms for rapture

The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Synonyms for rapture

a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion

a state of elated bliss

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The Easy collection features 36 wallpapers, including seven co-ordinating plans: Rapture - a loosely-drawn, pretty, floral trail inspired by the Romantic trend, with 'soft suede effect'flower heads that contrast with the hard-wearing background - available in eight colour ways.
First lecture: "The Rapture Exposed: Prophecy Not Prediction," 7 p.m.
Pure Rapture boats varietal, single origin, or estate grown chocolate.
Not long after entering Rapture you'll come across you first taste of plasmid.
RAPTURE is an ongoing, single-arm prospective study involving RFA performed under conscious sedation with CT guidance in 106 patients with 186 biopsy-proven lung cancer tumors up to 3.5 cm in size.
This passage is also interesting inasmuch as some frequently use it to talk about "the rapture." In The Rapture Exposed (Boulder: Westview, 2004) Barbara Rossing addresses the origins, flaws, and negative consequences in rapture theology.
The Rapture play the disco-punk-funk (or whatever you want to call it) that makes the sportcoat-wearin' nerds and chicks in leg warmers freak out.
Afterward he sucks her blood in rapture, but she survives; the first human to do so in centuries.
The series, based on faulty interpretations of Scripture, is anti-Catholic explicitly and implicitly; it advocates belief in the "rapture" and teaches false eschatology.
Beginning with the onset of "the Rapture" (the event that some Christians believe will result in the spontaneous ascension to heaven of all true-believers), the books paint a picture of what would happen if the events predicted in the biblical Book of Revelations occurred now.
Seeking Rapture represents the second time that Kathryn Harrison has plundered her unconventional upbringing as source material.
In this sense, there are non-aesthetic, religiously didactic tasks going on, such as when Bruce instructs his fellow church members about the events of the Eschaton, including the Rapture for which they apparently did not qualify (Left Behind, 308-314).
On Radio 1's One World this evening (midnight), we are told that punk funk is the next big thing,and the style's leading exponents are a band called The Rapture.
The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus, by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg.
While serving as a pastor at the Scott Memorial Baptist Church in San Diego in the 1960s and '70s, he regularly lectured and ran training seminars for the John Birch Society, activities LaHaye discusses matter-of-factly in his 1992 book No Fear of the Storm (reissued in 1998 under the title Rapture Under Attack.)