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  • 21transport — vb 1 *carry, bear, convey, transmit Analogous words: *move, remove, shift, transfer: *bring, fetch, take 2 Transport, ravish, enrapture, entrance can all mean to carry away by strong and usually pleasurable emotion. Transport need not suggest… …

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  • 22Enrapt — En*rapt , p. a. [Pref. en + rapt. Cf. {Enravish}.] Thrown into ecstasy; transported; enraptured. Shak. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 23Enrapture — En*rap ture (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Enraptured} (?; 135); p. pr. & vb. n. {Enrapturing}.] To transport with pleasure; to delight beyond measure; to enravish. Shenstone. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 24Enrapturing — Enrapture En*rap ture (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Enraptured} (?; 135); p. pr. & vb. n. {Enrapturing}.] To transport with pleasure; to delight beyond measure; to enravish. Shenstone. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 25Enravishment — En*rav ish*ment, n. The state of being enravished or enraptured; ecstasy; rapture. Glanvill. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 26Rapt — Rapt, a. 1. Snatched away; hurried away or along. [1913 Webster] Waters rapt with whirling away. Spenser. [1913 Webster] 2. Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.; enraptured. The rapt musician. Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 3. Wholly… …

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  • 27enrapture — transitive verb (enraptured; enrapturing) Date: 1740 to fill with delight …

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  • 28rapt — adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin raptus, past participle of rapere to seize more at rapid Date: 14th century 1. lifted up and carried away 2. transported with emotion ; enraptured 3. wholly absorbed ; engrossed • raptly adverb •… …

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  • 29swoon — I. intransitive verb Etymology: Middle English swounen, probably back formation from swouning, swowening, from iswowen, aswoune, from Old English geswōgen in a swoon Date: 13th century 1. a. faint b. to become enraptured < swooning with joy > …

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  • 30Aphrodite — This article is about the Greek goddess. For other uses, see Aphrodite (disambiguation). Pandemos redirects here. For the butterfly, see Pandemos (butterfly). Aphrodite …

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