Rapture vs Exaltation - What's the difference?
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Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
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* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VII
In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.")
(obsolete) The act of kidnapping]] or [[abduct, abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
(obsolete) Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
(obsolete) The act of carrying, conveying, transporting or sweeping along by force of movement; the force of such movement; the fact of being carried along by such movement.
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* 1888 James Russell Lowell, Agassiz 6.1.21:
A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
(dated) To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
* 2012 , The Books They Gave Me: True Stories of Life, Love, and Lit , page 138:
(dated) To experience great happiness or excitement.
To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the .
* 2010 , Gerald Mizejewski, ?Jerimiah Asher, Charting the Supernatural Judgements of Planet Earth (page 233)
* 2011 , Lexi George, Demon Hunting in Dixie (ISBN 0758271816)
(rare) To take part in the .
* 2001 , Allan Appel, Club Revelation: A Novel , page 320:
(uncommon) To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.
* 1885 , Edward Everett Hale, G.T.T.; or, The Wonderful Adventures of a Pullman , page 158:
* 2003 , Jessica Peers, Asparagus Dreams , page 75:
* 2003 , Beverly Adam, Irish Magic , page 121:
The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation.
The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property.
(astrology) That placement of a planet in the zodiac in which it is deemed to exert its strongest influence.
*1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 483:
*:He often stood there in a muse until dusk fell, and then darkness, while once in a while the moon, ‘in her exaltation ’ as the astrologers say, rose to remind him that such worldly musings meant nothing to the hostile universe without.
(rare) The collective noun for larks.
* 1989 , Ronald K. Siegel, Intoxication: The Universal Drive for Mind-Altering Substances , Park Street Press (2009), ISBN 1594770697,
* 2005 , Lucille Bellucci, Journey from Shanghai , iUniverse (2005), ISBN 0594343732,
* 2005 , Linda Bird Francke, On the Road with Francis of Assisi: A Timeless Journey Through Umbria and Tuscany, and Beyond , Random House (2006), ISBN 9780345469663,
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As nouns the difference between rapture and exaltation
is that rapture is extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement while exaltation is the act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation.As a verb rapture
is to cause to experience great happiness or excitement.As a proper noun Rapture
is a prophesied sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation or simultaneous with the second coming of Jesus Christ.rapture
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(en noun)- Music, when thus applied, raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture .
Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
- Sunderland’s right-back, Santiago Vergini, inadvertently gave Southampton the lead by lashing the ball into his own net in the 12th minute, and that signalled the start of a barmy encounter that had home fans in raptures and Sunderland in tatters.
- My heart filled with rapture then, and it fills now as it has each of the countless times I have recalled those dear words, as it shall fill always until death has claimed me. I may never see her again; she may not know how I love her--she may question, she may doubt; but always true and steady, and warm with the fires of love my heart beats for the girl who said that night: "I love you beyond all conception."
- That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash / With headlong rapture .
- With the rapture of great winds to blow / About earth's shaken coignes.
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(raptur)- She raptured me in summer by giving me Fitzgerald's flawed and gorgeous masterpiece, the book that held his tortured heart.
- The third person raptured by God into heaven was Elijah
- “Praise the Lord, he's been raptured.” Good grief. “I don't think so, Mrs. Farris. 'Course, I'm Episcopalian, and I'm pretty sure we don't get raptured'. But, Baptists get ' raptured , don't they?”
- "If she's raptured ," Ellen said to them on the fifth night after Marylee's disappearance, as they sat on the roof of the building on their old beanbags and rusting garden furniture hauled up from the Museum, "if that's what happened to her, then "
- And then the flowers! May-day indeed. Hester had been in Switzerland at the end of June, years on years before, and often had she raptured to Effie about the day's ride, in which they collected a hundred varieties of flowers, most of them new to them.
- Pulling her leggings down over unshaven legs, she raptured "I'm dry!" to her audience.
- They're called angora with wonderfully long, soft fleece,” she raptured on about her first venture.
exaltation
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(en noun)page 192:
- In a sense, the editorial cartoons were correct when they suggested that an exaltation of larks can fly under the influence into an aspect of vulturous behavior.
page 83:
- “I'd like to think of my father being lifted to God in an exaltation of larks.”
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- It is said that an exaltation of larks, which had assembled on the roof of Francis's hut, suddenly—and inexplicably—took to the air just after sunset, wheeling and singing.