enraptured

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Enraptured means filled with overwhelming delight. An enraptured audience, enraptured by the music, sat enraptured.

The rapture in it is the old sense of being seized and carried off, which is why the word suggests being taken over rather than merely pleased. It is literary and slightly excessive, and it usually describes an audience.

Definitions of enraptured

1adjectiveenrapturedFilled with overwhelming delight.C2
“The children sat enraptured as the storyteller described the dragon.”

enraptured is a state of delight.

Where it comes from

enrapture comes from en- + rapture.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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enraptured in the wild

Lyrically, it presents Ferry as a Casanova-style seducer of women, whilst being simultaneously enraptured by them.
Ladytron (song)
Berlioz was not religious as an adult but remained all his life susceptible to the beauty of the religious music that had enraptured him as a child.
L'Enfance du Christ
Influenced by the Romantic values of subjective experience, Friedrich portrays a figure enraptured by the sublimity of nature.
Mountain Landscape with Rainbow
Great grief is Cinaedh the revered chieftain, son of Cosgrach of beaming countenance, The gifted torch, enraptured Bard, the exalted Abbot of Achadh Bo.
Cináedh mac Coscrach

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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