OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 25646

rapt

/ˈɹæpt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
absorto • embelesado
Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed; fascinated or engrossed.
1851-2, George W. M. Reynolds, The Necromancer, in Reynolds′s Miscellany, republished 1857; 2008, page 247, It was an enthusiasm of the most rapt and holy kind.
The children watched in rapt attention as the magician produced object after object from his hat.
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