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rapts

rapts is the plural of rapt.

Meaning of rapt

Noun

rapt (plural rapts)

  1. (obsolete) An ecstasy; a trance.
    • the soul then is in rapt1671, The Life Of The Mother S. Teresa
  2. (obsolete) Rapidity.
    • […] like the great exemplary wheeles of heaven, we must observe two Circles: that while we are daily carried about, and whirled on by the swinge and rapt of the one, we may maintain a naturall and proper course, in the slow and sober wheele of the other.1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 2nd edition, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Preface

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Questions about rapts

What is rapts the plural of?
Rapts is the plural of rapt.

Words near rapts in the dictionary

  1. raptorially
  2. raptorious
  3. raptorish
  4. raptorlike
  5. raptors
  6. rapts
  7. rapture
  8. rapture of the deep
  9. raptured
  10. raptureless
  11. raptures

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