(v. t.) To transport with pleasure; to delight beyond measure; to enravish.
Example Sentences:
(1) With a sign of the cross from the steps of his plane, Pope Francis concluded a historic visit to the US on Sunday night, taking off from Philadelphia and heading back to Rome after six days which enraptured – and challenged – his hosts.
(2) The wild chanting for the"Wolf" by enraptured staff was reportedly echoed on real-life Wall Street when Morgan Stanley's John Mack returned to the bank in 2005 after a stint at Credit Suisse First Boston.
(3) The country became enraptured by a circus around a painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
(4) As the townsfolk listened enraptured, I half-expected Gerald Finley (sublime as Sachs) to urge his fellow guildsmen to “take back control”.
(5) Via nefarious means I've watched two episodes of Lilyhammer , BBC4's brand new "not very good thing with subtitles we're hoping to keep The Killing audience enraptured with", where a New York mob boss (Steven Van Zandt) goes into hiding in Norway with hilarious results.
(6) Liverpool supporters were not the only ones enraptured by his performance at Anfield.
(7) Updated at 9.29am BST 9.01am BST I feel like slipping Steve Hewlett a twenty and thanking him for a good half hour on the couch for this: "Home advantage, a soft draw, systematic fouling and indulgence by the officials; this Brazil squad has been an unlovable spoilt brat of a team and that's why you, I and many others enraptured by Brazilian teams of the past have spent the past half week confusingly comfortable in our schadenfreude.
(8) You know what God loves most?” he asked the crowd, hushed and enraptured on a moonlit night.
(9) I also am enraptured by the shield function (3:58), although I question the dedication of the guy with the stick.
(10) Nor was he enraptured by "the small change of Oxford evenings", and he was startled by the erratic inebriety of such celebrated Oxonians as Richard Cobb, although he shared Cobb's disdain for the uncritical Francophilia of so many of their colleagues.
(11) When I was younger, it was this second half that enraptured me: the rush of the hunt (on both sides); the thrill of not knowing who would and wouldn't survive; and the pain of how much this affected the characters.
(12) A few minutes later, the unheralded long jumper from Milton Keynes was preparing his final leap and taking the acclaim of the enraptured crowd as Farah was easing through the gears in a 10,000m final that would end with the Somalia-born, London-raised distance runner winning the first British gold in over a century.
(13) While most children his age would have wept from boredom, Salazar said he felt enraptured, as though he needed to be a part of what was going on.
(14) She got behind her own music so had to improvise, not that the enraptured audience holding their breath in the stands would have known.
(15) 2008 Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, meets Gaddafi and apparently enraptures the Libyan leader: an album of photographs of her will be later found in his Tripoli compound after the regime's fall in 2011.
(16) According to Rodgers, what enraptures listeners – and you can hear it, he says, on the Daft Punk album – is disco's "complex simplicity".
(17) Cameron’s decision to participate in 2010 has reached mythical status in some Tory circles, allowing the fresh-faced upstart Nick Clegg to enrapture those previously drawn to Tory modernisation.
(18) Then we pay for the costs they kindly dump on us: the floods, the extra water purification necessitated by the pollution they cause, the loss of so many precious and beautiful places, the decline of wildlife that enchants and enraptures.
Rapture
Definition:
(n.) A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence.
(n.) The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy.
(n.) A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
(v. t.) To transport with excitement; to enrapture.
Example Sentences:
(1) Zuma, who had endured booing during Mandela's memorial service at this stadium, received a rapturous welcome as he entered to the sound of a military drumroll trailed by young, flag-waving majorettes.
(2) Meanwhile he is preparing a new double piano concerto by Kevin Volans with the Labèque sisters for a concert at the Edinburgh festival next week, and he tells me with a glint in his eye about ideas for the next two seasons: concert performances of Don Giovanni this October, more Brahms symphonies, and more Berlioz – an ambitious plan to realise the gigantic drama of Roméo and Juliette on a chamber-orchestral scale, following up his rapturously received performances of L'Enfance du Christ in February.
(3) No, what swung it for us was their debut album, An Awesome Wave, which has been rapturously received.
(4) Yet it can never hope to match yes campaigners’ vision, their powerful elixir of hope for a better future, which can spark feelings that are almost religious in their fervour, like the rapture of old Christian belief.
(5) "The destiny you seek lies in Europe," McCain told the crowd, to rapturous applause.
(6) Her agony and her rapture stay interior, and they flip-flop like nerves in this beautiful, grave black-and-white movie.
(7) Rocky: Das Musical , the stage adaptation of the much-loved Sylvester Stallone film , has opened to a rapturous critical reception in Hamburg.
(8) Sunderland’s right-back, Santiago Vergini, inadvertently gave Southampton the lead by lashing the ball into his own net in the 12th minute, and that signalled the start of a barmy encounter that had home fans in raptures and Sunderland in tatters.
(9) Obama received a rapturous welcome when he visited in 2010, though concrete results of the warmer relationship have been less obvious .
(10) Other artists on the list are Cindy Sherman (13), Gerhard Richter (16) and Steve McQueen (59), whose new film, 12 Years a Slave, has opened in the US to rapturous reviews and predicted Oscar success.
(11) These people stand at the edges of our avenues, of our streets, in deafening anonymity.” The passionate exhortation came hours after he addressed the United Nations , prayed at Ground Zero, visited a school in Harlem and cruised through Central Park, where 80,000 people greeted the 78-year-old Argentinean with rapture.
(12) In Palo Alto, a crowd of 4,000 responded rapturously to the senator’s speech.
(13) Once it was on the ground there was "immediately rapture, shouting and crying" among the 459 people on board, Waschbusch added.
(14) The first Latin American pontiff, who once worked with slum dwellers in his home city of Buenos Aires , Argentina, expressed solidarity with the residents of the Varginha favela in northern Rio de Janeiro, where he received a rapturous welcome.
(15) But it is Left Behind that continues to dominate the field, spawning spin-off products including – mind-bogglingly – a "kids' series" that has run to more volumes than the original saga, as well as books looking at the Rapture from the military point of view and even video games .
(16) Individual staffers have also rightfully apologized for their comments, and the DNC is taking appropriate action to ensure it never happens again.” The turning point came when Obama took to the stage, to a rapturous welcome from Democrats waving a sea of “Michelle” purple placards.
(17) And I was knocked sideways when you said, "Oh, shit", walked off and you walked back on again to rapturous applause and got it exactly right.
(18) At the appointed hour, we're informed, all true Christians will be snatched away and rapturously transported to heaven.
(19) Waving their hands, singing and praying together, the huge crowd joined in an often rapturous shared worship.
(20) With the stadium still in disbelieving raptures from the heroics of Jessica Ennis and Greg Rutherford, Farah took to the track to huge cheers knowing that at least a dozen of the 29-strong field were capable of mounting a serious challenge.