Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Filled with delight; enraptured.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Rapt; ravished; in a state of rapture or ecstasy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Thrown into ecstasy; transported; enraptured.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
fascinated ,enraptured
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Examples
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To put it in terms reflective of Silas's photographic process and subject, Silas had to find the entropy that would hold us enrapt, keep us from turning away.
G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas G. Roger Denson 2011
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To put it in terms reflective of Silas's photographic process and subject, Silas had to find the entropy that would hold us enrapt, keep us from turning away.
G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas G. Roger Denson 2011
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To put it in terms reflective of Silas's photographic process and subject, Silas had to find the entropy that would hold us enrapt, keep us from turning away.
G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas G. Roger Denson 2011
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However much we preoccupy ourselves with the pictorial features of Silas' birds, the death and decomposition that she analogizes, and which holds each of us enrapt, is ultimately significant of the death and decomposition of the human self.
G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas G. Roger Denson 2011
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However much we preoccupy ourselves with the pictorial features of Silas' birds, the death and decomposition that she analogizes, and which holds each of us enrapt, is ultimately significant of the death and decomposition of the human self.
G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas G. Roger Denson 2011
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But Mr. Erwitt also has a gift for clicking off multiple photographs of a single scene, finding and preserving evanescent moments likely to leave the viewer alternately laughing or enrapt.
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Despite this obstacle, young Ron became enrapt with music, first on piano, then the guitar by his early teens.
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 144 Phil Ramone 2010
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Despite this obstacle, young Ron became enrapt with music, first on piano, then the guitar by his early teens.
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 144 Phil Ramone 2010
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It's why Smith's hedonistically enrapt souls appear anything but abject in their celluloid, silverprint and c-print paradises.
G. Roger Denson: Jack Smith and the Aesthetics of Camp in an Era of Political Correctness G. Roger Denson 2011
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However much we preoccupy ourselves with the pictorial features of Silas' birds, the death and decomposition that she analogizes, and which holds each of us enrapt, is ultimately significant of the death and decomposition of the human self.
G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas G. Roger Denson 2011
kalvin commented on the word enrapt
rapt; transported; enraptured: a violinist's enrapt audience.
June 12, 2008