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Definition of "enrapture" [en•rap•ture]

  • To fill with rapture or delight. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "enrapture" in a sentence
  • "The Hand That First Held Mine will no doubt enrapture you, just as it has me."
  • "Subjectively, this manifests itself in the perception that the "feelings" elicited by art and music are in fact the ACTUAL feelings the artist felt, somehow, dizzyingly 'captured' by the work, immortalized, held in 'static communion' by the canvas, or musical recording, or camera... and now able to enrapture and enchant us indefinitely."
  • "On Loopita, the german artist platform Raster-Noton enrapture the audience again, exihibiting all the collective´s positive boldness regarding music and electronic images."