raptness
- 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
The goal was raptness in a form she loves.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2015
I think there's something about Zahi's raptness that we could learn a lot from.
From The Guardian • Dec. 16, 2012
There is a misty broodiness in his eyes which leaves 85 them indescribably lovely to me as I watch him in his moments of raptness.
From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)
