enrapt

English

Adjective

enrapt (comparative more enrapt, superlative most enrapt)

  1. (poetic or archaic) fascinated, enraptured
    • 1898, Cutcliffe Hyne, A Master of Fortune‎:
      The tune carried among the lanes and dwellings of the village, and naked feet pad-padded quickly up over dust and the grass; the audience distributed itself within and without the head-man's hut, and listened enrapt; and the head-man felt the glow of satisfaction that a London hostess feels when she has hired for money the most popular drawing-room entertainer of the day, and her guests condescend to enjoy, and not merely to exhibit themselves as blases.
    • 1904, Bliss Carman, The World's Best Poetry Volume IV.‎:
      Yet, like some sweet beguiling melody, So sweet we know not we are listening to it, Thou, the mean while, wast blending with my thought,-- Yea, with my life and life's own secret joy,-- Till the dilating soul, enrapt, transfused, Into the mighty vision passing, there, As in her natural form, swelled vast to Heaven!
    • 1918, Francis B. Pearson, The Vitalized School‎:
      She sits enrapt as Shakespeare turns the kaleidoscope of life for her, or stands enthralled by Victor Hugo's picture of the human soul.

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