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  • verb Present participle of rapture.

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  • January 24, 2007 -- President Bush's 2007 State of the Union address bumped into an unexpected snag with the "rapturing" of approximately 150,000 Fundamentalist Christians yesterday, Washington sources said.

    Front page feed 2009

  • January 24, 2007 -- President Bush's 2007 State of the Union address bumped into an unexpected snag with the "rapturing" of approximately 150,000 Fundamentalist Christians yesterday, Washington sources said.

    Front page feed 2009

  • Other than being certifiable, the only logical explanation for Huckabee's irrational proposal to change the Constitution must have resulted from him having been swept away in the tidal euphoria of crazed end-of-days-rapturing Christian zealots in South Carolina.

    Mike Huckabee Hates the Constitution and Wants to Rewrite It in His Image 2008

  • The Left Behind series applauds the rapturing up of the Christians and the destruction of all those non-believers who obviously didn't choose correctly.

    Linda Seger: Let's Kill Our Enemies in the Name of Christ 2008

  • The African National Congress late on Tuesday night joined the chorus of condemnation of striking municipal workers who rampaged through the city centre littering and rapturing water pipes.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • She twirled slowly around and around, her whole body rapturing with a fine pleasure.

    The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981

  • She twirled slowly around and around, her whole body rapturing with a fine pleasure.

    The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981

  • She twirled slowly around and around, her whole body rapturing with a fine pleasure.

    The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981

  • She twirled slowly around and around, her whole body rapturing with a fine pleasure.

    The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981

  • Nor ever again did her genius shine out in rapturing periods till she drew inspiration from the grand environment of the old homestead.

    Idle Hour Stories Eugenia Dunlap Potts

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