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2 meanings

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1 —as in:
rapt attention

Definition

deeply interested and focused (on something) — often while admiring

She watched with rapt attention.

rapt = fascinated

Other Uses (with this meaning)

We all listened with rapt attention as she described the accident.

rapt = with deep interest and focus

The audience hung upon his words, taking no note of time, rapt in the ghastly fascinations of the tale.
Mark Twain -- Tom Sawyer

rapt = with deep interest and focus

For entertainment, Odysseus told them heroic stories of.... The men were rapt, their faces struck with wonder.
Madeline Miller -- Circe

rapt = deeply, and pleasurably fascinated

In her hands was a crystal ball into which she was gazing raptly.
Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

raptly = with deep interest and focus

Clustered around the radio, they all listen raptly to the BBC.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

raptly = with deep interest and focus

There were the guards, crowded around a radio in rapt attention, listening to a small, halting Japanese voice. Something of great importance was being said.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

rapt = deeply interested

The cause of all the commotion sat serenely, his rapt, innocent gaze never straying from the minister's face, his hand still cupped over the imprisoned fly.
Elizabeth George Speare -- The Witch of Blackbird Pond

rapt = showing deep interest and focus

I would listen, rapt, as he told stories of warring tribes, Pashtun leaders and saints, often through poems that he read in a melodious voice, crying sometimes as he read.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

rapt = deeply, and pleasurably fascinated

Moving deliberately around the display, Billie points out Chris as a toddler astride a hobby horse, Chris as a rapt eight-year-old in a yellow rain slicker on his first backpacking trip, Chris at his high school commencement.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

rapt = showing deep interest

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2 —as in:
rapt with love

Definition

deeply moved or filled with intense pleasure

She danced rapt with the music.

rapt = deeply moved or filled with intense pleasure

Other Uses (with this meaning)

She was rapt with love.
Mark Twain -- Tom Sawyer

rapt = deeply moved or filled with intense pleasure

In the painting, the angel is gazing in rapt adoration of baby Jesus.

rapt = deeply moved

"An' we'd keep a few pigeons to go flyin' around the win'mill like they done when I was a kid." He looked raptly at the wall over Lennie's head. "An' it'd be our own, an' nobody could can us."
John Steinbeck -- Of Mice and Men

raptly = filled with pleasure

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Less commonly:

Much more rarely, in classic literature, rapt may refer to the rapture a belief of some Christian denominations in the second coming of Jesus and of movement to heaven.

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