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
He sank to raptness as of yore, And opening New Year’s Day Wove it by rote as theretofore, And went on working evermore In his unweeting way.
From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various
