Adjective : a rapt listener. ,rapt with joy. ,a rapt smile. From Dictionary.com.
It is the thing he loves best to do -- constructive play -- giving play to his powers, bringing him to that raptness which is full inner breathing and timeless. From Wordnik.com. [Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation] Reference
Jamie stood to one side a little, observing me and taking pleasure in my raptness. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
His unexpected, mythic journey has turned the past twenty-two months into a national raptness. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Hanft: What We'll Miss] Reference
The boy watched, his initial doubt replaced with plain delight, then by raptness, then by a dawning mute blankness. From Wordnik.com. [The Gunslinger]
I had thought the silence, the raptness, the quality of still, centered beauty was the effect of the klieg, but it wasn't. From Wordnik.com. [Futures Imperfect]
There is a misty broodiness in his eyes which leaves them indescribably lovely to me as I watch him in his moments of raptness. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie Child] Reference
He has that raptor raptness, as much feline and serpentine, and I saw him gulp down a very large fly, lick his scaly little chops and sit all attention for the next chump. From Wordnik.com. [mondosapore] Reference
He was beaming, regarding the sky with a raptness, a concentrated attention that reminded me of the total-immersion baptism I’d witnessed on the beach a week earlier. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. & Mrs. Fixit] Reference
It may be foolish, but these convictions are borne in upon me; I cannot help them! "cried Elsie, clasping her hands and opening her blue eyes to the fullest capacity, as she turned a gaze of mysterious raptness upon the group by the fireplace. From Wordnik.com. [A Houseful of Girls] Reference
She shook him out of raptness. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
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