rapt

Definitions


[rapt], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- completely fascinated or absorbed by what one is seeing or hearing
(e.g: a rapt teenage audience)

- having been carried away bodily or transported to heaven
(e.g: he was rapt on high)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘transported by religious feeling’): from Latin raptus ‘seized’, past participle of rapere




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