Rapt
[ræpt]
Definition
(-) of Rap
(-) imp. & p. p. of Rap, to snatch away.
(a.) Snatched away; hurried away or along.
(a.) Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.; enraptured.
(a.) Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation.
(a.) An ecstasy; a trance.
(a.) Rapidity.
(v. t.) To transport or ravish.
(v. t.) To carry away by force.
Typist: Osborn
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Enraptured, transported, ravished, entranced, charmed, delighted, enchanted, fascinated, spell-bound, in an ecstasy.
Editor: Rosanne
Definition
adj. raised to rapture: transported: ravished:—pa.t. and pa.p. of rap (2).—v.t. (obs.) to grasp or carry off.—n. Rap′tor a ravisher.
Typist: Preston
Examples
- As the years went on, she lost more and more count of the world, she seemed rapt in some glittering abstraction, almost purely unconscious. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He saw her bowed head, her rapt face, the face of an almost demoniacal ecstatic. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The sun was setting now; and the red light in the evening sky touched every face there, and caused it to be distinctly seen in all its rapt suspense. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- She became rapt, abstracted in her conviction of exclusive righteousness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I know this is the talk of a dreamer--of a rapt, romantic lunatic. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I was standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper beeches. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He did not say what the doctor had wanted him for, but stood before the fire, with his hands behind his back, and his face open and as if rapt. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She had always her strange, rapt look, unnatural and irresponsible. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He received no answer, all for the moment sitting rapt in admiration of the performance described. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- What had rapt me beyond his reach? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- This spectacle of another's suffering and sacrifice rapt my thoughts from exclusive meditation on my own. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She had a rapt, triumphant look, like the fallen angels restored, yet still subtly demoniacal, now she held Birkin by the arm. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She turned from sight and sound--touched, if not rapt; wakened, if not inspired. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Tarzan watched the graceful movements of the ship in rapt admiration, and longed to be aboard her. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Mrs. Trenor fixed a rapt eye upon her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Black eyes you have left, you say, Blue eyes fail to draw you; Yet you seem more rapt to-day, Than of old we saw you. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- What was he thinking, what was he feeling, as he stood there so rapt, saying nothing? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Typist: Preston