2010, Caroline Overington, I Came to Say Goodbye, page 201, One bloke I met in the pub was the owner of the local meatworks.2010, Michael Reichert, Richard Hawley, Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys: Strategies that Work-and Why, John Wiley & Sons, US, page 121, Even in the most rapt accounts of independent student work, there appears an appreciative acknowledgment of the teacher?s having determined just the right amount of room necessary to build autonomy without risking frustration and failure.Giles, American Novelists Since World War II: Fifth Series, page 139, Creatures who navigate long-distance migrations - including the green turtles, wind birds, or great cranes - draw his most rapt commentaries. I am rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.( comparable ) Enthusiatic ecstatic, elated, happy.1998, Derel Leebaert, Present at the Creation, Derek Leebaert (editor), The Future of the Electronic Marketplace, page 24,.Rapt, transported, trembling, he was possessed in all his senses by this new divine thing that caught up his helpless soul and swung and dandled it, a powerless but happy infant in a strong sustaining grasp. 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows The Rat never answered, if indeed he heard.1906, Ford Madox Ford, The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court, Works of Ford Madox Ford, 2011, unnumbered page, Her expression grew more rapt she paused as if she had lost the thread of the words and then spoke again, gazing far out over the hall as jugglers do in performing feats of balancing.Reynolds, The Necromancer, in Reynolds?s Miscellany, republished 1857 2008, page 247, It was an enthusiasm of the most rapt and holy kind. The children watched in rapt attention as the magician produced object after object from his hat. ( comparable ) Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed fascinated or engrossed.
( not comparable ) Lifted up into the air transported into heaven.1626, Henry Wotton, letter to Nicholas Pey From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Francis Bacon, to Redgrove.( not comparable, archaic ) Snatched, taken away abducted.Rapt ( comparative more rapt, superlative most rapt) Borrowed from Latin raptus, past participle of rapio ( “ to seize ” ).
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