"raptures" in the noun sense
1. ecstasy, rapture, transport, exaltation, raptus
a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
"listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens
2. ecstasy, rapture
a state of elated bliss
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