Raptus
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Raptus is the Latin for "seized", from rapere "to seize". In Roman law the term covered many crimes of property, and women were considered property.
It may refer to:
- any literal seizure
- confiscation
- robbery
- kidnapping
- raptio, i.e. the abduction of women, also known as Frauenraub; these are the "rapes of Zeus".
- the term for bride kidnapping in Catholic canon law; specifically, it is an impediment to marriage
- in religion, spirituality and subjective experience
- rapture, a Christian belief about the End Times and the transport of redeemed souls.
- status raptus, religious ecstasy.
- being "carried away" or "transported", being in good spirits, see Ecstasy (emotion).
[edit] See also
- Rape (disambiguation)
- History of rape
- Raptor
- the literary critic Longinus and his essay On the Sublime.
- the artistic and poetic concept of the sublime, especially in Romantic texts, inspired rapture.
- the protagonist in Dario Fo's play Accidental Death of an Anarchist died in raptus.
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