All 4 Uses

rapt
in
As I Lay Dying
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watching Vernon with rapt absorption.
Chpt 37 *

rapt = deep interest and focus
Her voice is strong, young, tremulous and clear, rapt with its own timbre and volume, the fan still moving steadily up and down, whispering the useless air.†
Chpt 12
Cash works on, half turned into the feeble light, one thigh and one pole-thin arm braced, his face sloped into the light with a rapt, dynamic immobility above his tireless elbow.†
Chpt 17
Then Be looks at Vernon again in that posture of rapt alertness.†
Chpt 37

Definitions:

(1) (rapt as in: rapt attention)
deeply interested and focused (on something) -- often while admiring
(2) (rapt as in: rapt with love)
deeply moved or filled with intense pleasure
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
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.