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enraptured

[en-rap-cher]

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verb (used with object), -tured, -tur·ing.

to move to rapture; delight beyond measure: We were enraptured by her singing.

Origin:
1730–40; en-¹ + rapture

Related forms

en·rap·tured·ly, adverb

un·en·rap·tured, adjective

Synonyms
enthrall, transport, entrance, enchant.

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The baby shopper, who thus made everybody smile, was enraptured over one of the pretty hood-bonnets for the little women.

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enrapture

1740, from en- + rapture. Related: Enraptured.

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"Let us consider for a moment the following argument. The child plays in complete—we can well say, in sacred—earnest. But it plays and knows that it plays. The sportsman, too, plays with all the fervour of a man enraptured, but he still knows that he is playing. The actor on the stage is wholly absorbed in his playing, but is all the time conscious of "the play." The same holds true of the violinist, though he may soar to realms beyond the world. The play-character, therefore may attach to the sublimest forms of action. Can we now extend the line to ritual and say that the priest performing the rites of sacrifice is only playing? At first sight it seems preposterous, for if you grant it for one religion you must grant it for all. Hence our ideas of ritual, magic, liturgy, sacrament, mystery would all fall within the play concept."

-Johan Huizinga

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