What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Relish vs Rapture - What's the difference?

relish | rapture | Related terms |

In transitive terms the difference between relish and rapture

is that relish is to taste or eat with pleasure, to like the flavor of; to take great pleasure in while rapture is to take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.

As nouns the difference between relish and rapture

is that relish is a pleasing taste; flavor that gratifies the palate; hence, enjoyable quality; power of pleasing while rapture is extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.

As verbs the difference between relish and rapture

is that relish is to taste; to have a specified taste or flavour while 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.

relish

English

(wikipedia relish)

Noun

(es)
  • A pleasing taste; flavor that gratifies the palate; hence, enjoyable quality; power of pleasing.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 12.
    • A Laplander or Negro has no notion of the relish of wine.
  • * Milton
    • Much pleasure we have lost while we abstained / From this delightful fruit, nor known till now / True relish , tasting.
  • * Addison
    • When liberty is gone, / Life grows insipid, and has lost its relish .
  • Savor; quality; characteristic tinge.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • It preserves some relish of old writing.
  • A taste for; liking; appetite; fondness.
  • * Macaulay
    • a relish for whatever was excellent in arts
  • * Cowper
    • I have a relish for moderate praise, because it bids fair to be judicious.
  • That which is used to impart a flavor; specifically, something taken with food to render it more palatable or to stimulate the appetite; a condiment.
  • A cooked or pickled sauce, usually made with vegetables or fruits, generally used as a condiment.
  • * '>citation
  • In a wooden frame, the projection or shoulder at the side of, or around, a tenon, on a tenoned piece.

    • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (es)
  • (obsolete) To taste; to have a specified taste or flavour.
  • *, II.3.3:
    • honourable enterprises are accompanied with dangers and damages, as experience evinceth; they will make the rest of thy life relish the better.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Had I been the finder-out of this secret, it would not have relished among my other discredits.
  • * Woodward
    • A theory, which, how much soever it may relish of wit and invention, hath no foundation in nature.
  • To give a relish to; to cause to taste agreeable, to make appetizing.
  • * Dryden
    • a sav'ry bit that served to relish wine
  • To taste or eat with pleasure, to like the flavor of; to take great pleasure in.
    • He relishes their time together.
    I don't relish the idea of going out tonight.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Now I begin to relish thy advice.
  • * Atterbury
    • He knows how to prize his advantages, and to relish the honours which he enjoys.

    Synonyms

    * appreciate * delight in * enjoy * like * revel

    rapture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
  • * Addison
    • Music, when thus applied, raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture .
  • * 2014 , , " 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.
  • * 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VII
    • 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."
  • 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.
  • * Chapman
    • That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash / With headlong rapture .
  • * 1888 James Russell Lowell, Agassiz 6.1.21:
    • With the rapture of great winds to blow / About earth's shaken coignes.
  • A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
    • (Shakespeare)

    See also

    * ("rapture" on Wikipedia)

    References

    *

    Verb

    (raptur)
  • (dated) To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
  • * 2012 , The Books They Gave Me: True Stories of Life, Love, and Lit , page 138:
    • She raptured me in summer by giving me Fitzgerald's flawed and gorgeous masterpiece, the book that held his tortured heart.
  • (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)
    • The third person raptured by God into heaven was Elijah
  • * 2011 , Lexi George, Demon Hunting in Dixie (ISBN 0758271816)
    • “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?”
  • (rare) To take part in the .
  • * 2001 , Allan Appel, Club Revelation: A Novel , page 320:
    • "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 "
  • (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:
    • 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.
  • * 2003 , Jessica Peers, Asparagus Dreams , page 75:
    • Pulling her leggings down over unshaven legs, she raptured "I'm dry!" to her audience.
  • * 2003 , Beverly Adam, Irish Magic , page 121:
    • They're called angora with wonderfully long, soft fleece,” she raptured on about her first venture.
    ----