Enraptured

/ɛnˈræptʃərd/ adjective

Definition

Filled with intense happiness, wonder, or absorption; transported by joy or beauty.

Etymology

Past participle of 'enrapture', which combines 'en-' with 'rapture'. Became common in the 18th-19th centuries as the standard way to describe being emotionally seized.

Kelly Says

This word perfectly captures the Romantic era's obsession with intense feeling—you'll find it everywhere in Wordsworth, Keats, and Jane Austen describing faces alight with wonder.

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