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Enrapture   /ɛnrˈæptʃər/   Listen
Enrapture

verb
(past & past part. enraptured; pres. part. enrapturing)
1.
Hold spellbound.  Synonyms: delight, enchant, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport.






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"Enrapture" Quotes from Famous Books



... so aspiring, so meditating, divinely sweet and beautiful will be your spiritual experiences, and glorious the revelations that will enrapture your inward vision. As you realize the divine Love, the divine Justice, the divine Purity, the Perfect Law of Good, or God, great will be your bliss and deep your peace. Old things will pass away, and all ...
— The Way of Peace • James Allen

... stationary figures of grave saints, mid wayward tangles of acanthus and wild vine and cupid-laden foliage; but the subordination of these decorative details to the main design, clear, rhythmical, and lucid, like a chaunt of Pergolese or Stradella, will enrapture one who has the sense for unity evoked from divers elements, for thought subduing all caprices to the harmony of beauty. It is not possible elsewhere in Italy to find the instinct of the earlier Renaissance, so amorous in its expenditure ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds

... and whisper to me of thy secrets; fill my senses with thy breath divine; show me the bottom of thy terrible spirit; buffet me in thy storms, infusing in me of thy ruggedness and strength, thy power and grandeur; lull me in thine autumn sun-downs to teach me in the arts that enrapture, exalt, supernaturalise. Sing me a lullaby, O Mother eternal! Give me to drink of thy love, divine and diabolic; thy cruelty and thy kindness, I accept both, if thou wilt but whisper to me the secret of both. Anoint me with the chrism of spontaneity that ...
— The Book of Khalid • Ameen Rihani

... the boldest Sylph appal, When gleaming with meridian blaze, Thy beauty must enrapture all, But who ...
— Fugitive Pieces • George Gordon Noel Byron

... you are not to leave me! Let us now begin. I feel myself glowing with inspiration. Ah, I shall enrapture these good ...
— The Daughter of an Empress • Louise Muhlbach



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