All 6 Uses

rapture
in
Underworld, by DeLillo
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The manager stands and spins, he is spinning with his arms spread wide—maybe it's an ascetic rapture, a thing they do in mosques in Anatolia.

rapture = ecstasy (extreme happiness)
The Rapture is approaching.
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rapture = second coming of Jesus
Brian went into a state of body rapture over a lime sherbet Chevrolet, a '57 Bel Air convertible with white upholstery.
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rapture = ecstasy (extreme happiness)
When you think about the textured histories of the teams and the faith and passion of the fans and the way these forces are entwined citywide, and when you think about the game itself, live-or-die, the third game in a three-game playoff, and you say the names Giants and Dodgers, and you calculate the way the players hate each other openly, and you recall the kind of year this has turned out to be, the pennant race that has brought the city to a strangulated rapture, an end-shudder requiring a German loan-word to put across the mingling of pleasure and dread and suspense, and when you think about the blood loyalty, this is what they're saying in the booth—the love-of-team that runs across the†
The photo mosaics seemed to reveal a secondary beauty in the world, ordinarily unseen, some hallucinatory fuse of exactitude and rapture.†
This is the incense of her experience, the burnt cedar and gum, a retaining medium that keeps the moment whole, all the moments, the swaying soulclap raptures and the unspoken closeness, a fellowship of deep belief.†

Definitions:

(1) (rapture as in: listened with rapture)
intense desired emotion -- usually extreme happiness
(2) (rapture as in: awaiting the Rapture)
belief of some Christian denominations in a second coming of Jesus when believers are expected to go to Heaven
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)