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proper noun The Rapture
  1. the sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation and the return of Jesus Christ
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noun 
  1. Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement
  2. In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.")
Etymology: rapere, to take away or snatch out.

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