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Meanings of enraptured in English

Feeling great rapture or delight.

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        Examples for "ecstatic"
        Examples for "ecstatic"
        1
        Manager's reaction: Delighted with the points, far from ecstatic about the performance.
        The Irish Times
        2
        Families of the missing group were ecstatic at news of the rescue.
        Radio NZ
        3
        Families of the missing group were ecstatic at news of their discovery.
        Radio NZ
        4
        In the South it was hailed with ecstatic delight, especially in Charleston.
        The Life of Abraham Lincoln
        5
        Then and only then shall we achieve an ecstatic union with God.
        A history of god: the 4000-year quest of judaism, christianity, ...
        1
        She held the bundle up and looked at it in rapt contemplation.
        Stubble
        2
        The gorgeous being entered, and found three demure ladies rapt in newspapers.
        Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, Volume 2 / Shawl-Straps
        3
        Zelandoni was a powerful speaker, and Ayla was listening with rapt attention.
        The Shelters of Stone
        4
        Note, further, the soul rapt in meditation and this vision of God.
        Expositions of Holy Scripture: Isaiah and Jeremiah
        5
        They also fill the soul of the rapt beholder with adoring wonder.
        Among the Forces
        1
        Despite the team's disappointment, they received a rapturous welcome home last night.
        The Irish Times
        2
        He grasped it in his own and covered it with rapturous kisses.
        Prince Eugene and His Times
        3
        One rapturous blogger called her 'the Everlasting Progressive, the Princess of News'.
        The Guardian
        4
        Benedict's predecessor John Paul always met rapturous crowds in his Catholic Poland.
        Reuters
        5
        The great poet musicians can breathe out their inspirations in rapturous melodies.
        Life in a Thousand Worlds
        1
        Bergman films the young lover's on the run with rhapsodic, highly inflected images.
        The new yorker
        2
        The cello part provides a rhapsodic strand against the insistently rhythmic choral writing.
        Radio NZ
        3
        I begged him to rise, and be a little less rhapsodic.
        The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2
        4
        And Stanley thought, for he was not rhapsodic 'Wonderful pretty country!
        The Freelands
        5
        Mrs Beeton, is quite rhapsodic about the woodcock in particular.
        The Irish Times
        Usage of enraptured in English
        1
        The Woggle-Bug goes to the party and is enraptured by the dress.
        The Woggle-Bug Book
        2
        At once all eyes were turned towards him; we were all enraptured.
        In the Field (1914-1915): The Impressions of an Officer of Light...
        3
        With the exception of madame, everybody was enraptured with the royal munificence.
        Prince Eugene and His Times
        4
        But Oppenheimer, enraptured with my tales, remained a sceptic to the end.
        The Jacket (The Star-Rover)
        5
        He'd been looking around him as though enraptured by what he saw.
        Empty mile
        6
        Americans were enraptured by convenience and the space-age technologies that bestowed it.
        Packing for mars: the curious science of life in the void
        7
        Veronica had stopped playing, and the girls were expressing their enraptured appreciation.
        The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit; Or, Over the Top with the Winn...
        8
        Clarisse was enraptured, having just obtained the part of Geraldine from Bordenave.
        Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
        9
        She gazed at it with such enraptured eyes that Frau Rupius smiled.
        Bertha Garlan
        10
        This was just the type of man to become enraptured with Prudence.
        Prudence of the Parsonage
        11
        The Assessor looked enraptured, as Eva arranged his confections on little plates.
        The Home; Or, Life in Sweden
        12
        When Joe held him, Emma filled with joy because Joe was enraptured.
        The panic zone
        13
        The second was quite simply enraptured and didn't care who knew it.
        Mr. Prohack
        14
        Haydn was enraptured with it, but he was never really himself again.
        Haydn
        15
        Doing as they had been done by, and enraptured by the accomplishment.
        The Naked God
        16
        Wotan grants her request, and Brunnhilde throws herself enraptured into his arms.
        Evelyn Innes
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