Rapture vs Mirth - 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 emotion usually following humour and accompanied by laughter; merriment; jollity; gaiety.
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That which causes merriment.
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Rapture is a related term of mirth.
As a proper noun rapture
is (christianity) a prophesied sudden removal of christian believers from the earth before the tribulation or simultaneous with the second coming of jesus christ.As a noun mirth is
the emotion usually following humour and accompanied by laughter; merriment; jollity; gaiety.rapture
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Noun
(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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*Verb
(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.
mirth
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(en noun)- And he began to laugh again, and that so heartily, that, though I did not see the joke as he did, I was again obliged to join him in his mirth.
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- Their eyes met and they began to laugh. They laughed as children do when they cannot contain themselves, and can not explain the cause of their mirth to grown people, but share it perfectly together.
- Phantasmal mirth , folded away: muskperfumed.