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   rapt

   /rapt/

   adjective

   • 1. completely fascinated or absorbed by what one is seeing or hearing: "a rapt teenage audience" Similar fascinatedenthralledspellboundcaptivatedrivetedgrippedmesmerizedenchantedentrancedcharmedbewitchedtransportedenrapturedthrilledecstaticrapturousinformal:blissed outOpposite uninterestedinattentive
   • ▪ characterized by a state of fascination: "they listened with rapt attention" Similar engrossedabsorbedlostpreoccupiedin a brown studyintent
   • ▪ filled with an intense and pleasurable emotion; enraptured: "she shut her eyes and seemed rapt with desire" Similar fascinatedenthralledspellboundcaptivatedrivetedgrippedmesmerizedenchantedentrancedcharmedbewitchedtransportedenrapturedthrilledecstaticrapturousinformal:blissed outOpposite uninterestedinattentive
   • ▪ another term for wrapped informal Australian, New Zealand
   • 2. having been carried away bodily or transported to heaven: archaic "he was rapt on high"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘transported by religious feeling’): from Latin raptus ‘seized’, past participle of rapere.

   Derivatives

   • 1. raptly adverb
   • 2. raptness noun

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   2 days ago · Rape is a type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent.

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   2 days ago · Definitions of enraptured. adjective. feeling great rapture or delight. synonyms: ecstatic, rapt, rapturous, rhapsodic. joyous. full of or characterized by joy.

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   23 hours ago · A comet of sheer energy on stage, he copied the dance moves of Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones and held audience’s rapt attention. The film garnered an Oscar in 1973 for best documentary. Revivalism and entertaining services, even when conducted for profit and notoriety, long marked such low-church traditions.

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   2 days ago · Jenai Auman’s “people” are those who feel othered and unwelcome in traditional church spaces. As a Filipina American writer and artist, she uses her years of church ministry experience, education, trauma-related training, and personal encounters with spiritual abuse to share healing and hope with others.

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   2 days ago · It takes a remarkable actor to hold an audience rapt single-handedly. Even more so when the impersonal lines of a generic hotel room define their stage. Wiradjuri star Joel Bray achieved it with his deeply personal live performance piece, Biladurang. Daniel Monks, award-winning star of stage and ...

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   3 days ago · Clear and simple definitions in American English from Britannica's language experts. More usage examples than any other dictionary.

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   2 days ago · So, so it was so interesting to see them flipping from kind of turning up to kind of deride the Bible, you know, only ten years previously to now kind of sitting in rapt attention at this person, telling them that actually the Bible was full of wisdom and meaning and these stories that kind of define what it means to be human. Justin Brierley: So.