pleasure vs rapture

pleasure

noun
  • A person, thing or action that causes enjoyment. 

  • One's preference. 

  • A state of being pleased or contented; gratification. 

  • The will or desire of someone or some agency in power. 

verb
  • To give or afford pleasure to. 

  • To give sexual pleasure to. 

intj
  • pleased to meet you, "It's my pleasure" 

rapture

noun
  • Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement. 

  • A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium. 

  • In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living and deceased believers. (Usually "the rapture".) 

verb
  • To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously. 

  • To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture. 

  • To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture. 

How often have the words pleasure and rapture occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )