All 4 Uses
rapt
in
The Light of Western Stars
(Edited)
- Alfred met her, and his exclamation, and Florence's rapt eyes shining on her face, and Stillwell's speechlessness made her self-conscious.
Chpt 6rapt = filled with deep pleasure
- "He say he love me," repeated the girl, in a kind of rapt awe.
Chpt 7 *
- The face she saw—white, rapt, strangely glowing, with parted, quivering lips, with great, staring, tragic eyes—this could not be Madeline Hammond's face.
Chpt 23
- His eyes had the rapt stare, the wild fear of a man who saw an apparition, yet who doubted his sight.
Chpt 25 *rapt = deep interest and focus
Definitions:
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(1)
(rapt as in: rapt attention) deeply interested and focused (on something) -- often while admiring
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(2)
(rapt as in: rapt with love) deeply moved or filled with intense pleasure
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(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.