noun
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An ecstasy; a trance.
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Rapidity.
verb
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To transport or ravish.
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To carry away by force.
adjective
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Snatched, taken away; abducted.
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Lifted up into the air; transported into heaven.
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Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed; fascinated or engrossed.
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Enthusiatic; ecstatic, elated, happy.
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He was rapt with his exam results.
Examples of rapt in a Sentence
She gazed at the room in rapt silence.
Jessi was listening in rapt attention.
She gazed up at him in rapt silence.
He stood beside her and they both watched mother natures' display in rapt silence.
He stopped the ATV again and they got off, both gazing in rapt silence.
His work held the rapt attention of his audience.
She was sitting in a chair beside Katie, watching him with rapt attention.
When Westlake obligingly opened a map and pointed out various high country locations, he had the Dawkins' rapt attention.
Eight songs is too few, of course, from a band who could keep an audience rapt for hours.
He might have been watching star wars, for all the rapt attention he gave the scene.
The rapt, anxious expressions of the group are most striking.
The young Raphael, whose incomparable instinct for rhythmical design had been trained hitherto on subjects of holy quietude and rapt contemplation according to the traditions of Umbrian art, learnt from Leonardo's example to apply the same instinct to themes of violent action and strife.
In their watchful silence, and in their rapt attention, do these denizens of the borderlands make known their approbation.
Lots of changes in tempo here, holding the entire audience rapt.
His voice is incredible - deep, rich and distinctive and he has everyone rapt within one song.
My mom said my brother and I sat rapt in front of the TV when it came on.
Boswell says he 's just rapt to have lasted the full distance.
Rural working men, cigarette in mouth, are shown in rapt concentration.
Eyewear.com has a pair of rose lens ski goggles called Zeal Optics Rapt.
Why is it that in a typical classroom there are some students who will sit in rapt attention to everything the the teacher says, while other students can't seem to focus for more than five minutes before they start fidgeting?
In the very earliest times of the most remote animism we find the belief that a person, rapt from all sense of the outside world, possessed by a spirit, acquired from that state a degree of sanctity, was supposed to have a degree of insight, denied to ordinary mortals.
He worked, it is said, at her portrait during some portion of four successive years, causing music to be played during the sittings that the rapt expression might not fade from off her countenance.
I briefed Betsy who listed with rapt interest, especially as I expressed my strong belief that Annie's abductor might very well be our Delabama stalker.
This he reported, his eyes glassy in rapt nostalgia, reliving every errant swing of his impotent bat.
The results are charming and occasionally, as in the rapt central section of the soprano aria, rather more than that.
Boswell says he's just rapt to have lasted the full distance.
A brief climax slowly brings the music to a calm, rapt end, with the solo violin musing in glistening harmonics.
His visages have an air of rapt suavity, devotional fervency and beaming esoteric consciousness, which is intensely attractive to some minds and realizes beyond rivalry a particular ideal - that of ecclesiastical saintliness and detachment from secular fret and turmoil.
A full house listened in rapt silence as the tragic events unfolded... David Rex ' Oedipus was a most moving figure.
A rapt audience heard O'Donnell expand on the themes explored in his recent best selling books on Emmet.
Not realizing the tape formed flexible hinges, he watched with rapt fascination as the form collapsed into a small, neat bundle.
He leaned his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands and remained rapt in dumb meditation.
This is as simple as scheduling an appointment with a reputable makeup artist and watching his or her every move with rapt attention.
The affair ended by his escaping to Switzerland, where Sophie joined him; they then went to Holland, where he lived by hackwork for the booksellers; meanwhile Mirabeau had been condemned to death at Pontarlier for rapt et vol, and in May 1777 he was seized by the French police, and imprisoned by a lettre de cachet in the castle of Vincennes.
It was at Pisa, in the church of Santa Cristina, on the fourth Sunday in Lent (April I), while rapt in ecstasy after the communion, that Catherine's greatest traditional glory befell her, viz.
The old oak, quite transfigured, spreading out a canopy of sappy dark-green foliage, stood rapt and slightly trembling in the rays of the evening sun.