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Definition of Raptness
1. the state of being rapt [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Raptness
Literary usage of Raptness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... atmosphere about her so that she looked far into the mysteries that encompass
mortal life. It was her raptness, her mysticism, that appealed so strongly ..."
2. Essays on Modern Novelists by William Lyon Phelps (1910)
"... raptness as of yore, And opening New Year's Day Wove it by rote as theretofore,
And went on working evermore In his ..."
3. Essays on Modern Novelists by William Lyon Phelps (1910)
"He sank to raptness as of yore, And opening New Year's Day Wove it by rote as
theretofore, And went on working evermore In his ..."
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