enrapt

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en·rapt

   [en-rapt]
adjective
rapt; transported; enraptured: a violinist's enrapt audience.
Origin:
1600–10; en-1 + rapt
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Word Origin & History

enrapt
c.1600, "carried away by (prophetic) ecstasy," from en- "make, put in" + rapt (see rapture).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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