All 3 Uses of
rapt
in
Unbroken, by Hillenbrand
- Harris cracked it open and was immediately rapt.
p. 225.0rapt = deeply fascinated
- 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.
p. 303.8 *rapt = deeply interested
- When he wasn't with his campers, Louie was happily walking the world, telling his story to rapt audiences in everything from grade school classrooms to stadiums.
p. 382.8rapt = deeply fascinated
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) 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.