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• past tense form of wrap.
• past participle of wrap.

wrapt

American  

[rapt] / ræpt /

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of wrap.

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wrapt

While inland China was wrapt in its customary slumber, the coast provinces, from Kwangtung to Chihli, effervesced in a variety of bubbles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Reserving his fire as he advanced, he passed alone through the hostile fleet, within close pistol range, wrapt in flame as he swept on.

From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley

But the fiery shower fell harmless on the steel bonnets of the Christians, while they availed themselves of the burning shafts to set fire to the wooden citadel, which was speedily wrapt in flames.

From William Hickling Prescott by Harry Thurston Peck

And though like a mourner that sits by a tomb, I am wrapt in a mantle of care; Yet the grief of my bosom—oh! call it not gloom— Is not the black grief of despair.

From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull

In winter, wrapt in a blanket, he studied till midnight, and in summer, at dawn, resorted to a cemetery near by, where he found the quiet he desired.

From Famous American Statesmen by Sarah Knowles Bolton