rapt
adjective
deeply engrossed or absorbed.
raptness
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a word derived from
rapt.
Example Sentences
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He quotes — as he will on several occasions always with the same, soft raptness — one of his favorite Shakespeare lines, from “Coriolanus”: “There is a world elsewhere.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2019
Ms. Sengbloh endows the description with a raptness that stops time, and an abject figure acquires majesty.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2017
I think there's something about Zahi's raptness that we could learn a lot from.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 16, 2012
Here, he creates a raptness on stage that makes still more unnerving the outbursts of anger from the nature-loving poet and his haunting by a doppelganger.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 25, 2012
Tyndall noticed that the others were gazing up into the old man's face with an expression of raptness, even of reverence.
From Grove of the Unborn by Lyn Venable
